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If you are a reasonably healthy adult, your chance of COVID death is 0.04%
Busiturtle
4/7/20 9:45am
How are people still downplaying the danger of this thing?
rad dawg
4/7/20 9:47am
Good question
Covid-19
4/7/20 9:48am
It amazes me too. Head in sand
Croweater
4/7/20 9:48am
It's not downplaying it. I mean, a 0.04% chance of dying is good enough for me
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 9:50am
Everyone has different risk tolerance, .04% chance of dying doesn’t even phase
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 10:03am
Except it’s not a 99.6% chance you’ll be fine. It’s actually 99.96%.
antiyewt
4/7/20 1:13pm
It's unbelievable.
eddog
4/7/20 10:05am
half my siblings take similar stances...at a minimum, it's a lack of empathy
BlackBart
4/7/20 10:07am
to be clear, they've self-ascribed to the bucket that won't care until
BlackBart
4/7/20 10:09am
Is it lacking empathy to spend trillions to prolong a relatively small number of
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:15am
What you said is true
gurt
4/7/20 11:33am
All great philosophical questions answered when there is ample time and
StalwartBraveTrue
4/7/20 8:18pm
So where is your empathy for the 20 million americans that lost jobs this month?
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 10:33am
Vast majority of these have been furloughed and can resume the same employment
hardcorecoug
4/7/20 9:35pm
Source on that claim? The ones at my company were simply laid off.
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:16pm
Downplaying for segments of the population
CougarCanuck76
4/7/20 11:29am
Only 10 of us.
kiyoshige
4/7/20 11:58am
I'm surprised you feel that way. I had no idea what your position was on this before now.
Pimpin4Paradise
4/7/20 9:47am
Did you read that on Zerohedge?
SandYFan
4/7/20 9:47am
As a reasonably healthy adult what are my chances of dying from an infectious
Tare
4/7/20 9:49am
If the theory is that everyone will get it eventually, my future is not bright.
Hinta
4/7/20 9:50am
You may want to isolate yourself significantly until you’re vaccinated.
antiyewt
4/7/20 1:20pm
That is the problem. What is reasonably healthy?
bluecheese
4/7/20 9:51am
What if you're an unreasonable healthy adult? Asking for a friend.
DapperDan
4/7/20 9:54am
That death rate equates to 130,000 dead Americans, or double
Busiturtle
4/7/20 9:57am
Yet albeit with different precautions and approach to flu prevention.
coug almighty
4/7/20 10:00am
So.. just let it run rampant through the world population
Big Daddy D
4/7/20 9:59am
He has been shown this argument many times and ignores it.
SandYFan
4/7/20 10:05am
I mean, if it's about saving lives, how about we get vaccines, mosquito nets,
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:08am
We're working on that.
SandYFan
4/7/20 10:11am
Not on a large scale. Most would rather donate $ to their local animal shelter.
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:17am
Don’t get me started on that nonsense
Big Daddy D
4/7/20 10:19am
Bill Gates is doing it on a large scale.
SandYFan
4/7/20 10:23am
He's done some amazing things for sure.
dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:31am
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dYrtbYkerYder
4/7/20 10:32am
but what would that number be if no lockdowns were in place?
flyzag
4/7/20 10:33am
I guess we will see when this is all over because of Sweden.
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 10:35am
I know it's not perfect (testing etc) but Sweden currently has a 7.68% mortality
flyzag
4/7/20 10:41am
It wouldn't be the mortality rate that would change, would it, it would be the
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 10:45am
the percentage of people infected, right?
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 10:45am
Both. The argument could be made that more deaths occur in places where no
flyzag
4/7/20 10:54am
Sweden is taking measures, just not as extreme
Covid-19
4/7/20 11:22am
I never said Sweden did nothing, thank you.
gilmerbuckeye
4/7/20 12:29pm
Not saying you in particular have, just have seen that sentiment recently
Covid-19
4/7/20 1:00pm
Avoiding death is not the reason young people should be social distancing, etc.
Hill4Heisman
4/7/20 11:12am
330,000,000 x .04% = 132,000 deaths
Jonahsdad
4/7/20 11:55am
And current projections predict around 80,000 US deaths.
antiyewt
4/7/20 1:22pm
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