respect your point on cases potentially being underreported. But you could almost double the number of recorded cases and the death rate would still be above 1%.
but if we're going there, we also have to acknowledge potential underreporting of deaths (for political reasons or due to misclassification). People have been doing statistical gymnastics with reporting since the pandemic began.
You don't have to trust me on the 1% death rate, but I'm pretty confident in that because that's roughly the percentage used when forecasting covid deaths and it has been tracking reality pretty accurately.
You chart is good context in general, but it is misleading to compare global deaths from various diseases to the COVID death rates for Europe only. We're currently at 13k global deaths per day from COVID. That means it's deadlier than everything on your least except for cancer and heart attacks. That's pretty serious bruh.
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