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I wear a mask and practice social distancing.  But there's been so much misinformation about Covid it's hard to gauge just how serious it is--misinformation both under estimating and overestimating the threat.  I wonder how much worse, if any, it is than SARS was eight years ago.  You'd think in the information age it would be easier to get accurate and truthful information.  It is not.

@NUance buddy, less than 800 people have died from SARS since 2002. COVID is less sever but more contagious, and didn't "died out" like SARS did.

Sure Covid can be extremely deadly.  I've known people who died from it.  But I've known of even more people who died of other causes but were labeled Covid deaths because they tested positive.  We didn't do that in the past for various strains of flu--attributing deaths as flu deaths if they happened to have the flu when they died.  Why are we doing that now for Covid?  Anyone who thinks the death rates for Covid aren't somewhat inflated isn't looking at the whole picture.