So Now Will The "It's Not As Bad As Flu" Brigade Please Zip It.

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/covid-death-toll-compared-flu-pneumonia-091517553.html

[Bobbisox1]

I've never heard that said Canary ?

[dannyk13]

Bobbi//I've never heard that said Canary ?//
Many times on here.

[Canary42]

It's quite a common riposte in cyberspace, which I'm sure includes here, but if Ab excluded then I apologise.

[Canary42]

Crossed post

[Peter Pedant]

yes canary you're making it up

( said by Trump and trumpeted by NewJudge by the way
and no I am not going to dig out the ipsissma verba (bidda ancient forrin there!) to ridicule the exact words because
a. mama said it is NOT done when I was enthusiastically doing that to someone who hilariously accused me of harassment ( o god)
b.I wd rather copy out a dictionary of ancient forrin - - wh reminds me ....

so yeah - - ignorant proles - when it comes to Chinese Flu - zip it!

(hey can I trademark Chinese Flu as a phrase coined by me now?)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah on AB there are skippers
here skipping the flu=covid posts
and so - - if you skip a post - - it isnt there!

so how do they know what to skip before reading - hey dont ask - this is AB !

[margarettom]

It misses the point a bit. Many of the people who died of Covid might well have died of pneumonia or flu.

[Peter Pedant]

well spotted
12 o'clock news is running it

the newsie said " well there is a deluge of covid deaths far more than anything else - durr"
and then added
"four times as many as flu - but flu is running very low this year"

and I thought O ho - NJ will up there with his - "it is all a question of relabelling and they arent really dead just sleeping!" thesis

and others will scream - they always scream - "flu is low because they have just bunged them into the covid dept"

and so the carousel will go round

[youngmafbog]

I'm not going to zip anything mate. Dont be so ruddy rude.

[Old_Geezer]

"This year". Of course if you add in when cov was at it's height and flu not. Now go find figures where the playing field is level.

[iluvmargie]

Agree with 13:22.

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm not going to zip anything mate. Dont be so ruddy rude.//

yeah zip it chino lovers!

[yeah can really get into AB-speak]

[Mozz71]

OG has a point. Lets see the stats for a full year.in a couple of months, then chat about it.