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tl;dr: Every single sentence in your comment is untrue.

An IFR of 0.17% is not even wrong.

That would result in at least 10 states in the US itself to have had more cases than their population [0]. Assuming 100% infection rates, the minimum IFR looks to be at least 0.3%.

Also, no flu season ever has crossed even 70,000 deaths [1]. So I have no idea where your numbers are coming from. In fact, the excess mortality in the US till October 2020 was close to half a million. And that was the before the worst of the December peak when 4,000 people were dying daily.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html#:~:text=Whil....



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