Comparing Death Rates of COVID19 to Influenza & Harm Caused By The Vaccines For Each

Comparison of Infection Fatality Rates (IFR) Between COVID19 and Influenza

There have been numerous posts during COVID19 that have gone viral claiming to compare the death rate from COVID19 to the rate of death caused by Influenza. In general, the ones that went viral either said that COVID19 was similarly dangerous to Influenza or that COVID19 was far more dangerous than Influenza.

Since people like to defer their research to 'fact checkers', here is a page on this subject at healthfeedback.org entitled:
The lethality of COVID-19 is much higher than the flu; the Biden press corps didn’t say COVID-19 was a hoax

The page here goes into depth to explain how IFR is calculated and why some viral posts early on in the COVID19 saga were misleading when they said that COVID19 was similarly dangerous as Influenza.

The summary is that calculating IFR is not easy and the best we can do is look at a variety of sources of scientific analysis and make a guess based on those.

O’Driscoll and colleagues found a COVID-19 IFR of 0.5% for the USA[1]. In a large review of the available literature, Meyerowitz-Katz and Merone reported an IFR of 0.68% with the lowest IFR being 0.17% and the highest 1.7%[2]. The medical news outlet STAT also mentioned a similar IFR of 0.68% in Arizona. Therefore, it appears that a COVID-19 IFR of 0.1% would sit at the lower end of the range of IFR reported in the literature.

As far as the flu is concerned, the estimation of infections and deaths due to seasonal flu for the past years provides a way to determine the IFR. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 35.5 million people got the flu during the 2018-2019 flu season and 34,200 died from it, which yields an IFR of 0.1%. According to those CDC estimates, the flu IFR ranged from 0.1% to 0.17% from 2014 to 2019.

Therefore, the majority of studies find a COVID-19 IFR that is higher than that of the seasonal flu IFR. The claim that COVID-19 and the seasonal flu have similar IFR is thus an optimistic exaggeration based on cherry-picked data.

So they conclude that the rate of death from infections of COVID19 is perhaps at an average of about 0.68% (Note: This probably doesn't take into consideration that the PCR tests used for assessing COVID19 infection have been identified as hugely flawed by the US Health Departments and many others. The tests actually pick up Influenza cases and label them as COVID19).

The fact checker also concludes that the IFR for Influenza is around 0.1%.

So the IFR for COVID19 is said to be around 7 times higher than that of Influenza.

Possible deaths due to COVID19 or Flu Shots in the US VAERS Database

Total deaths associated with Flu Shots in the US VAERS Database between 2011 and 2021 = 494.

Total deaths associated with COVID19 Shots in the US VAERS Database between 2011 and 2021 = 13,967.

Total Flu Shot Doses in the US Between 2011 - 2021 = 1534.2 Million or 1.534 Billion.

Total COVID19 Shot Doses in the US = 410.2 Million.

Number Crunching

Total Flu Shot Doses in the US Between 2011 - 2021 = 1534.2 Million or 1.534 Billion.
Total deaths associated with Flu Shots in the US VAERS Database between 2011 and 2021 = 494.
This gives an average percentage of possible fatalities caused by the flu shots of 0.000032%.

Total COVID19 Shot Doses in the US = 410.2 Million.
Total deaths associated with COVID19 Shots in the US VAERS Database between 2011 and 2021 = 13,967.
This gives an average percentage of possible fatalities caused by the COVID19 shots of 0.0034%.

So the rate of fatalities may be 100 times higher for the COVID19 shots as compared to the flu shots. This means that your chance of dying from a COVID19 shot is possibly around 100 times higher than that of dying from an Influenza shot, based on the VAERS data.

As I have reported in a previous look at VAERS data, it is established by US Government research that VAERS is possibly up to 100 times under-reported - meaning that the actual count of possible deaths may be 100 times higher.

As previously explained, the rate of death after infection from COVID19 is stated as being around 7 times higher than from Influenza. However, the rate of reported deaths connected to the COVID19 shots is around 100 times higher than that of the Influenza shots, which means that there is a huge mismatch between the risk profiles of the two diseases and the associated vaccines.

If 7 people die from COVID19 infection for every 1 person that dies from Influenza infection then it's clear that COVID19 is a more dangerous problem, at present, than Influenza is. Whether this is because of a lack of longstanding adaptation to defend against Influenza or due to a fundamentally more dangerous capacity for harm within SARS CoV2 is debatable.

However, what is perhaps less debatable is that the risk of harm from COVID19 shots appears to be far higher than is the case from Influenza shots. So what should we conclude about the viability of the COVID19 shots when for every 1 person that takes an Influenza shot that dies in a connected way, 100 die from the COVID19 shots in a connected way?

On the surface, I'd say that the risk of harm from mass vaccination outweighs the risk of harm from the disease itself. Is this a reasonable conclusion?

Proponents of vaccination will argue that the data is fuzzy and we should just trust 'their' scientists. However, as previously pointed out many times, Pfizer and the other pharmaceutical companies are simultaneously among both the richest and most heavily fined for criminality corporations in history. They can and do easily manage to warp the statements made by many scientists and politicians in their favour.

Claiming that VAERS isn't a useful source of information is a bogus statement, since it is the primary source of data from the US on this topic and any flaws in VAERS should be similarly present in both the Influenza and the COVID19 data - meaning that any weaknesses should balance out when comparing Influenza data to COVID19 data.

For me personally, the fact that the data shows a 7 times higher risk of death from COVID19 than Flu, but a 100 times higher risk of death from the COVID19 shot than the flu shot, means that statistically, to ensure my own wellbeing I should be far less motivated to get a COVID19 shot than I am to get a flu shot.

Other people, who may be more at risk from COVID19 than I am, might think differently. However, most COVID19 deaths occur in the elderly population and we can see from the VAERS data (above) for COVID19 that equally, most of the deaths attributed to COVID19 shots are also in the elderly. This means that any logic that applies to my age group with regards the safety profile of the COVID19 shots should also apply to elderly people too.

Ultimately, the choice for your own body is yours. However, if people want to try to force others to be injected, they and the courts need to know exactly what is being forced here and who is responsible for the deaths involved.

Wishing you well,
Ura Soul

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