Seems we've always been able to contain ebola. So yeah, this isn't like ebola. An Leprosy? Oh and leprosy is slow progressing, curable, and 95% of people have natural immunity to it. That's a nice contrast to a fast spread respiratory virus. I don't think we can murder our economy for a virus like this one.

The coronavirus mortality rate is actual 3.4% as per the WHO. The current states of cases and deaths in the USA is 13,000 deaths of 404,580 making it a 3.2% mortality rate here. Sniper is off by 1.2%. But he'll just say I'm lashing out.

Anyway, I like the analogy of taking a bowl M&M's or jellybeans and saying 3.4% of them are poisoned. Would you be willing to be eat them? it's the same with going back to a normal lifestyle and public interaction. Increase the amount of people eating from that bowl, you increase the chances of death.

Also, many doctors and morticians are saying the death rate is under reported.

Oh my, the death rate shot up since i just checked in 2 minutes go.... 13,793 Bringing iot back up to the WHO's mortality rate of 3.4%

Edited: 04/08/2020 at 10:21 AM by HAPDigital

US population: ~ 350 million

Assumed Mortality rate: 2% = 7 million people.

If 3.4%,= 11.9, million people

Some people are fine with that many dead Americans...



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Edited: 04/08/2020 at 11:15 AM by Pagerow

Just jumped up another K....

14,183

well we dont have a vaccine for AIDS and millions probably died and we went about our business; there is a way

Your numbers are off. There are 48M Americans over 65 years old. How many of them have pre-existing conditions?

The current death rate is at 3.4% (14,257 deaths/422,350 cases). There is NO WAY that is the real death rate. We have only been testing a small slice of the population. If this thing is as contagious as they say it is and many people don't even show symptoms at all then that denominator of 422,350 is a joke and it is heavily inflating the actual death rate.

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“End of quote. Repeat the line.” - wise words from Joe Biden

Bottom line is if you are over 65 and have a pre-existing condition then do what you have to do to protect your own ass until we have a vaccine because people aren't going to keep living like this long. People MIGHT do this through May. I highly doubt we are still living like this in June.

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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," - George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f—k things up.” - Barack Obama

“End of quote. Repeat the line.” - wise words from Joe Biden

Death rate and mortality rate are two different things when talking about viruses

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Edited: 04/08/2020 at 12:58 PM by Pagerow

95% of people are immune to leprosy right out of the gate and it is really hard to catch. I don't see the analogy to a respiratory illness that is widely contagious and really easy to spread. Unless CDC is lying you have to try pretty hard to catch leprosy. And containable because of the nature of transmission.

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He's also comparing China's numbers to US numbers. But that's just me lashing out.

It isn't just people over 65, especially in this country full of fat people with bad blood sugar. Plus there are all the unfortunate type-I diabetics that would have to go on disability if all the other folks out there just circulate it. We shouldn't have to do strict isolation beyond May. Get the spread under control and then have a functional test/contacttrace/isolate plan in place. Get the big fire contained and then put out hot spots. Should be the plan anyway.

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What does he know that the governments of UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, well everywhere really don't? Interesting thing I saw today. German friend posting same memes as the Alex Jones crowd here in the US. PatriotPost and Freeper type stuff. They all think that it is some kind of globalist conspiracy.

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are you really gonna keep this disaster doom and gloom update thing goin on? look at yerself , man. FTW? sad

Fuck it, so we lose some of the elderly and ill. I need my Red Lobster again goddamn it!

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If the economy crashes because people didn't spend money for a month, we might just have bigger issues.

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