> There are 5.1 million people working in hospitals.
The person you are replying to is talking about frontline healthcare workers. But you ignored that and ran your math to include everyone who works in a hospital, and then you go on to ridicule the OP based on your incorrect math.
> They are therefore three times less likely to die from Covid than the general population.
This is based on your incorrect math and I'm quite sure is the incorrect conclusion.
> Schools across Europe have opened.
This isn't Europe, though, it's America. The situation is different here.
> Twenty times as many children died of the flu last year than from COVID.
I'm not sure how to interpret this, but COVID did not start to spread until November/December last year and obviously the numbers were small to start. What do you mean to imply with this stat?
> The CFR of this disease does not meet the threshold for a pandemic
The definition of a pandemic has nothing to do with CFR.
> nor does it merit the level of fear engendered by the press.
I haven't seen any fear-mongering from respected press. Most of the fear mongering I see about COVID is from Fox or similar telling us that the masks are something to be afraid of, due to government overreach or something.
But the normal press mostly just reports the facts. If those facts create fear in you, then I'm sorry, but it's not the press causing that fear.
The person you are replying to is talking about frontline healthcare workers. But you ignored that and ran your math to include everyone who works in a hospital, and then you go on to ridicule the OP based on your incorrect math.
> They are therefore three times less likely to die from Covid than the general population.
This is based on your incorrect math and I'm quite sure is the incorrect conclusion.
> Schools across Europe have opened.
This isn't Europe, though, it's America. The situation is different here.
> Twenty times as many children died of the flu last year than from COVID.
I'm not sure how to interpret this, but COVID did not start to spread until November/December last year and obviously the numbers were small to start. What do you mean to imply with this stat?
> The CFR of this disease does not meet the threshold for a pandemic
The definition of a pandemic has nothing to do with CFR.
> nor does it merit the level of fear engendered by the press.
I haven't seen any fear-mongering from respected press. Most of the fear mongering I see about COVID is from Fox or similar telling us that the masks are something to be afraid of, due to government overreach or something.
But the normal press mostly just reports the facts. If those facts create fear in you, then I'm sorry, but it's not the press causing that fear.
> It is utterly ridiculous.
Please stop.