Posted on 04/09/2020 9:27:44 AM PDT by USA Conservative
It is not 9 deaths per minute, it is 1 death every 9 minutes
525,600 minutes in year = 57,758 deaths per year = 158 deaths per day
or
1440 minutes per day
9.1 minutes per death = 158 deaths in a day
Well, I missed that, I was thinking more of comparing disease to a comparable disease. Car accidents happen because people don’t follow the rules. And Car accidents are not a contagious event, many times, someone runs off the road into a ditch or tree, drunk, texting, and unfortunately sometimes they hit another car. That collision does not impact anyone else besides the two parties involved, as sad as it is.
I personally don’t think comparing car accidents to COVID-19 is a valid comparison, but again, that is me.
Thanks, I got it after Richard Kimballs' post
sorry, after i posted my reply i noticed he had already explained it.
“153,623 people died in NYC in 2015.”
Hmmm, almost 2% of the city’s population and twice the rate of the rest of the country. Gunshots?
I apologize, that is a typo... the figure was for New York State not New York City. 19.66 million people lived in New York State in 2015, which is just over .9%. Deaths by firearms accounted for less than a thousand and most of those were suicides. New York has one of the very lowest amounts per million of firearm deaths in the country.
https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2015/table31a.htm
That’s ok, fireman - I thought it might be the numbers for NYC. That’s why I do my 1% check real quick on death rates - it always get you close, although NYC is quite a bit lower than 1%, probably due to immigration.
“That’s ok, fireman - I thought it might be the numbers for NYC.”
Typo. I’m sure you knew that I meant NY State. Anyway, I appreciate anyone who admits mistakes - I’ve made plenty myself!
Well, while not fully analogous, driving is volitional, as is social contact, and accidents occur due to lack of distancing, though the impact and damage and death is not intentional but is usually due to irresponsible behavior (don’t follow the rules), and likewise contact with the virus is usually that case, and both can be largely prevented by taking precautions, though a virus is harder to avoid.
But seeing as the extreme measures are taken to prevent less deaths from Covid that are less than what motor vehicle accidents result in on a yearly count, and which could be greatly reduced by similar extreme measures, then the consideration of the costs of such which prevent such extreme measures in the case of cars need to be applied to Covid. The costs to finances, freedom, social fabric are profound and can be behind thousands of deaths. https://therevolutionaryact.com/studies-the-shutdown-is-not-lives-vs-dollars-its-lives-vs-lives/
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