Confirmed cases are not the total number of cases.
Weird how no one who brings up under-reported cases has any opinion about under-reported deaths, since the insinuation you're making is that there are statistically more unreported cases than deaths. That seems like a claim you may want to justify.
Find any serious expert who does not believe that. Estimates have always been that cases are underreported by 10-20x, and that's consistent with recent serology tests.
Cases are obviously under-reported. I'm making the claim that deaths are also under-reported, and at a rate that could be consistent with the existing known rate reported.
Even if there were 10x as many cases, that would be 10 million people and 100,000 deaths (based on the above 2x excess number). That's 5x less people sick and 2.5x more people dead than the flu.
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Sure, that's plausible.
I'm making the claim that deaths are also under-reported, and at a rate that could be consistent with the existing known rate reported.
That's not plausible. The current case fatality rate (known deaths divided by known cases) is 5.7% according to https://infection2020.com/#. Nobody seriously believes that 5% of infected people end up dying; the most pessimistic estimates are between 1 and 2 percent. (Which would of course still be extremely bad).
You can't make that assumption because of things like suicides and people delaying treatment for serious acute health issues.