Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.

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[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These people who use the flu as a metric fail to realize that the flu is actually really dangerous and we made the decision to sacrifice the old and immunocompromised every year for the sake of convenience.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] PostModernCatholicismWillDoomUsAll@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Post modernists call this necropolitics and it's cringe as all fuck. I hate it. This is a much better term for it.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I prefer Social Murder as well, as the term acknowledges the violence being wielded against us.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Social murder is a subset of necropolitics, since the latter encompasses not only the state of living death induced by policies of social murder, but also the political, social, and even physical management of the dead and the process and aftermath of dying. When the IOF fills the nth mass grave with a bulldozer, that is an exercise in necropower as surely as is the state of exception in which they imprison the living.