Are people really this stupid?

Never has a virus been so oversold 

In a recent Kekst CNC poll, British respondents estimated that nearly 7 percent of the UK population has died from the coronavirus. That would be 4.5 million people. Scots supposed that more than 10 percent of the UK population has died. That would be seven million people.

Astonishingly, Americans believed that COVID has killed nine percent of their compatriots, or almost 30 million people! The real US total has indeed crossed the milestone of 150,000, but for pity’s sake, ‘only’ 20 million people died in World War One.

Well the reality is that Covid has killed about 0.046% of the population. The American public is only overestimating the virus by a factor of about 200. But hey, how else can you explain the manner in which Americans are willing to give up every freedom that they have in order to combat a disease that has not medically affected most Americans at all. Statistically only a small percentage of Americans actually know someone who passed from Covid, and most of those would be parents or grand parents and other elderly folks whose deaths are not quite as shocking as when someone is struck down in the prime of their lives.

We are at approximately 3000 deaths of Americans under the age of 45. Think about that. It adds up to about 60 people per state (on average). That's barely the murder rate of Chicago on a bad weekend! But while our country is collectively arguing that we should cut our police departments in response to all of those shooting deaths, we are also demanding people hide away in their houses, not go to church, and only leave the house with vast amounts of medical equipment because of a virus that appears far less dangerous to the average American than crime and guns are.

Just goes to show how politics is capable of ruining the minds of an average American. Either they have no concept of how many people have really died, they don't understand basic percentages, or they are following their political bend over any logical mathematical arguments. Is it crazy to suggest that we are doing more to react to the unreasonable hype of the disease rather than the reality of the disease? Because we seem to reacting much closer to a virus killing 9% of the population, rather than 0.046%.