Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
I would hazard a guess that the main killer is flu, and I would point out that there is a vaccine for flu, every year and free for oldies. So lots of grannies would not be susceptible to flu and those that chose not to receive the vaccination and subsequently die from influenza are less than careful.
Covid is flu without a vaccination and worse.
The flu vaccine isn't without controversy. There are people in the field who don't like it, who think it's relatively poor performance doesn't justify the expense of it, but it is a nive annual revenue stream for the pharma industry.

But leave that aside for the moment, Stolly says that "Covid is far more contagious than flu".

Sure, when it was new, like any new virus, you have a population that is more susceptible.

As it settles and reaches an equilibrium with the human race, public immunity builds, it will most likely be at a similar level to flu.

The problem is, because of the poor data that we have, we don't know for sure.

What we do know is that so far this Autumn, the statistics show that we are having less cases of respiratory illness, less admissions to hospital and fatalities as a result, when compared to 2 other autumns in the last 6 years.

Remove the COVID label, this is an unremarkable Autumn.