Virus death rate is .5 precent

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  1. squidward

    squidward Well-Known Member

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    Gee, let me guess, they feel like they have a cold.
    Giggles
     
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    It’s been so hyperbolized you think it’s the new Black Plague
     
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    The virus is significantly more lethal than the flu and more contagious. And the lethality of the virus increases with age.

    At age 50+ (and as of a week ago), your age groups makes up somewhere between 5-12% of the Covid-deaths. And roughly 3-4x more people your age died from covid than the flu during the same time period.
     
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    These are the people who run out and empty store shelves when a snow storm gets a name on weather channel.
     
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    Why are you giggling?
     
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    Why did you delete the portion of the post where I provided links to the surveys? You can read the names of the respondents there.
     
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    Yay.
    I have to live, should I not die in the near term.
    Life is hard and 100% fatal.
     
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    Cuz your post was comical
     
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    I can’t get TP anywhere ???
     
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    Which one of them knows the number of infections?
     
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    Do I have to fly out to Iceland to get TP
     
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    Why did you delete part of my post that provides the links to the surveys?
     
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    This
    Is not comical.
     
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    Nobody in that link knows the number.
    Or perhaps you can point that individual out
     
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    Obviously it was, cuz I laughed
     
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    Laughing at things that make you uncomfortable is a sign of weakness.
     
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    As I said, those are infectious disease experts each providing their own estimate of the true infection rate. If you are incapable of reading or respecting their opinion, the least you can do is to not intentionally edit my posts and remove the link material that permits others to read and learn from their estimates.
     
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    The numbers as they exist NOW...show a death rate of between 2% and 5%.

    And yes immortal...a 5% death rate is a reason to shut down the country.Herd immunity requires 70% to be infected. What's 70% of 350 million? What's 5% of that?

    But fine. Yes the death rate WILL probably come down ...AS WE DO MORE TESTING

    SO LETS DO MORE TESTING.

    UNTIL THEN WE DON'T KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING
     
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    Whether we test or not doesn’t change what the actual death rate of the virus is. It just allows us to confirm it. Furthermore unless you ACTUALLY test the dead, you cant just put people who died from underlying causes as coronavirus victims just because they had symptoms.

    But this is a moot point. There has been more than enough testing done in MANY places to show the virus’ death rate is approximately .5%.

    You do NOT quarantine people in this fashion unless there is ample evidence that the death rate is much higher than even 5%. You quarantine the sick and the highly vulnerable and you let everyone else go about their lives.

    Unless you have an ulterior motive, which in this case appears to be political.
     
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    Perhaps you should be able to discuss the content of links you post.
     
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    Laughing at funny things, ...is fun
     
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    And NOW would be key word huh :) Few months ago your propagandists were fear monger much larger tolls :) And soon as 30min antibody testing starts you will find out how much time was wasted hiding like hermits accomplished..

    Regardless of how you need to believe the end process of this is YOU GET IT. Until then your NEVER going to be protected from it! I rather be dead then to sit cooped up for the rest of my life like some mentally afflicted Agoraphobic germaphobe!

    [​IMG]
     
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    Even then IF the death rate is higher, what does hiding from it really solve? If the death toll was far greater that just means a vaccine will be far less effective for those with compromised/underling health issues! Only those with strong immune systems will survive and thats been the reality of flu and virus's since we were chuck'n spears at rodents. And all that time, the best medical science had done is to increase the odds is to INTRODUCE our immune systems to the strain so it produces antibodies to combat it ;) And even then!


    Flu season continues, with H1N1 diagnoses picking up, CDC says
    10,000 people have died of the flu this season, including 68 children.

    Feb. 1, 2020, 2:33 AM MST
    By Erika Edwards
     
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    My parents are dead.

    You can cower in fear - reasoned adults need not abide by your irrational fears.
     
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    Your fear is not a rational basis for keeping the economy closed.
     
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