[wastedyears]

The mortality rate isn’t going anywhere just because more people are being tested. Fewer people don’t magically die just because more are being tested. We’re just getting a better grasp of the rate of infection and spread. Wouldn’t the numbers be a false positive?

[cuban leaf]

Fewer people don’t magically die just because more are being tested.

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You miss the point. The raw number of people actually dying is lower than a lot of other things, like traffic deaths and the flu. The whole “thing” with this was the percentage dying. If it turns out to be low, this is all much adieu about nothing. Well, not nothing, but it means we can get back to work.

People die every day. Lots of them. If this becomes just another thing that is responsible for some tiny percentage of the people that die, we can deal with that like we have the others. It’s why they salt sidewalks when it freezes.

[LS]

Well, no. The mortality rate-—if I understand it right-—is the # of deaths divided by the # of infections. More tests almost certainly = more infections, but if the number of deaths doesn’t rise sharply, then the mortality rate will fall with increasing #s of tests.

Am I wrong in this?