[netsharc]

Most HN readers are geeks, geeks are usually scientific, your single observation/conclusion that it's all fake, without any data, and that no one has died contradicts thousands of data points of 13 million sick and half a million dead. So your reputation being wiped out clean is, IMO, deserved.

Then again, flat-earthers think they also have the scientific method behind them... and that all those thousands of scientists saying "Please, let me show you why the world is spherical." are in some sort of giant conspiracy to... what, protect the lizard overlords?

[dead_mall]

Yeah I forgot people want flawed backed-up statistics to support their claims... just go on WorldoMeter and look at how many recovered versus to how many died. It's just a fucking flu.

You think my reputation deserved to be wiped out just for sharing my personal experiences working at the hospital during this covid fad? Ok, dude.

[netsharc]

You're not getting downvoted from "sharing personal experiences", you're getting downvoted for screaming your flawed conclusion "It's allll fakeeeeeddd!" from your bubble of observation. Against thousands of other conclusions backed up with data. Which you are dismissing as invalid or is a giant conspiracy.

Do you wear the seatbelt while in a car? From my experience I would've been fine in all the car journeys I've ever taken if I hadn't worn the seatbelt, but I keep wearing them and I don't go on the internet and scream "Seatbelts are unnecessary!!!!". From your car ride experiences, you'd probably agree, so why do you keep wearing it? Is it because you trust the (scientifically done) experiments that show how badly hurt or dead you can be if you don't wear it?

[standardUser]

How many more people need to die before you change your mind?

There were about 35,000 deaths in the US during the 2018-2019 flu season.

There have been about 135,000 deaths in the US from COVID-19 so far. And the number of deaths per day is going back up.

So how many people do you think need to die in 2020 from COVID-19 before we should be taking it seriously and not considering it "just a fucking flu"? Another 35,000? More?

[dTal]

Apart from a CFR many times higher than flu, and an infection rate many times higher than flu - somewhere in the region of a third (!) of all COVID-19 infectees suffer long-term, maybe permanent debilitation. We're talking lung scars, chronic fatigue, neurological difficulties. The flu doesn't do that, not at that kind of rate anyway.