Some Interesting Covid Stats Worth A Glance

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I am posting this in part because I think my 'analyis,' if you want to call it that, sheds some light on something I have been saying about Covid all along. There is a big divide between how Covid is being reported and what the actual numbers look like. A quick P.S.: Sorry about the lengthier posts of late. Just been one of those months where apparently I have a lot to talk about. lol Look, I want to be very clear here that I have no interest in necessarily debunking or even denying the existence of Covid. Of course it is real. Nor am I in any way interested in making light of anyone who has gotten sick, or worse, died from Covid. Any death is a sad moment no matter what from, and no death is insignificant by ANY measure. I want to be clear on that point. Perspective is what I am interested in, and I am also posting this because I really do want to know your views. BUT, your views based on the numbers presented here and the case I am attempting to make. I posted a comment on another post regarding the panic in India, and India's media sort of fueling that panic. ...when the numbers aren't bearing out a NEED for panic. I spent a bit of time putting the comment together and getting the numbers together, and by no means is it a brilliant comment. But I thought it was a comment worth sharing with others who may not be on that post AND who may never get a chance to read and examine it. So, I decided to post it as a separate post. My comment was as follows: It is sad that this virus is still being so overhyped in India. The interesting thing is that when you look at the statistics, India is in far better shape than say us, here in the United States. Consider that the population in the U.S. is 328 million. The population in India is 1.4 billion. So far in the United States 607,000 people have died from Covid. So far in India only 392,000 people have died from Covid. A country like India with almost 5 times more people than the United States has had 35% less deaths. The death rate in the United States is 0.19% of the population. The death rate in India is 0.028% of the population. You are 578% more likely to die from Covid in the United States than in India. So, what IS the crisis I wonder? Why the hype? Why the hysteria? To what end? And even when you look at the total deaths from Covid, around 3.4 million people worldwide with a world population of 8 billion, this is only 0.04% of the entire world population. This is a survival rate of 99.96% overall across the globe. It's a survival rate of 99.81% in the United States. And it's a survival rate of 99.97% in India. What is even more interesting is that the survivability rate in India is HIGHER than the entire world. People need to calm down, do the math, and come back down to reality. If this were the Spanish flu of 1919 we'd have 210 million people dead in the entire world. We are 206.6 million people short of that, and we're almost done with the virus. Again, my apologies for War and Peace, but I think this is an important enough topic that it needs to be hashed out a bit. Especially as some people are still in a panic over this. I say, be cautious. Of course. That is the smart thing to do. But also be able to think this through rationally, and be suspect of any agenda that may be out there to hype this thing and make us panicked. I am really interested to hear your thoughts, and hope I also did not break any rules by copying and pasting my comment from another post here as a separate post.