I promised to post Part 2 of my SETI series today, but I'll again delay it. Tomorrow for sure. Today, back to the pandemic.   The   Star Advertiser   this morning had a startling front page headline: FLU PROVES DEADLIER THAN COVID   Essentially, here is what the article said:  In Hawaii, on an annual basis, the combined deaths for flu and pneumonia are higher than the 12-month death total for COVID-19.  Keep in mind that the death rate of this pandemic virus is 10 to 66 times that of the seasonal flu, so the latter higher than the former is a bit scary.  And why such a wide range? Using data from  Worldometer: The world mortality rate of COVID-19 is 2%.  This means that 2 die for every 100 cases. Depending on who you ask, the mortality rate of the seasonal flu is anywhere from  0.03%  to  0.1% . The matter of asymptomaticity causes a lot of confusion, for that 2% fatality figure for COVID will someday be much lower when the total cases count also includes this group.   Thus, the st