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The most widespread testing so far shows that COVID-19 has a fatality rate of 0.004%. That’s lower than the flu. Should we start shutting everything down, every year, because of the flu?
Wordpress ^ | April 12, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 04/12/2020 1:26:02 PM PDT by grundle

The most widespread testing so far shows that COVID-19 has a fatality rate of 0.004%. That’s lower than the flu. Should we start shutting everything down, every year, because of the flu?

Iceland has tested 10% of its population for COVID-19, by far the largest percentage of any country.

And it has discovered that the fatality rate is 0.004%.

That’s lower than the flu.

Should we start shutting everything down, every year, because of the flu?


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To: Wissa

Just going by official statistics


21 posted on 04/12/2020 1:52:18 PM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: grundle

If the fatality rate is .004%, the population of the U.S. is 330,000,000 and every American was already infected how many would be dead?

.00004 x 330,000,000 = 4 x 3300= 13200

Currently we have over 20,000 dead. If your death rate was even approximately applicable to us the new infection rate would be close to zero. It isn’t.

I think you misread the Iceland results, you made a typo or perhaps Iceland just has a much lower death rate than we do.


22 posted on 04/12/2020 1:56:47 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: grundle

0.4% not 0.004%.


23 posted on 04/12/2020 1:56:49 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: grundle

This is utter nonsense


24 posted on 04/12/2020 1:56:56 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: InterceptPoint

His math is wrong.


25 posted on 04/12/2020 1:57:27 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: grundle

Flu Bros go WTF!


26 posted on 04/12/2020 1:57:43 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: grundle

it’s not even the flu, bro


27 posted on 04/12/2020 1:59:25 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: grundle

“The most widespread testing so far shows that COVID-19 has a fatality rate of 0.004%.”

Total and utter BS!!!!!!!!!!! You have to be completely mindless to fall for that.


28 posted on 04/12/2020 2:00:05 PM PDT by Revel
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To: grundle

The flu at least has a vaccine that people can have every year, and those who are susceptible have some means of protection. I had a transplant, so even though I’m vaxxed for the flu, I still wear a mask and carry sanitizer every year, because I will still get sick; it’s just not as severe. Unfortunately, there is no such vaccine for COVID. Therefore, anyone over 65, those with chronic health conditions, and anyone else who is ordinarily susceptible to the flu don’t have that extra precaution to take.

The fact that people are currently taking precautions is no doubt also helping keep the death rate low, because people who are susceptible are doing whatever they can to stay healthy, no matter how extreme.


29 posted on 04/12/2020 2:01:30 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: grundle

Just saying.

30 posted on 04/12/2020 2:01:44 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: grundle
Two things occurred to me while reading the article at the Daily Mail.

Will there be a vaccine in time for next years C-19 round 2 and will there be another strain in which the vaccine has limited effect on?

It's clear this will be with us indefinitely so if the regular seasonal flu kills 20-80k Americans per year and the seasonal C-19 kills around the same amount; we are in trouble but both combined still doesn't come close to other things like vehicle accidents and medical mistakes which kill well over a million per year in America alone.

It sucks when it's you or someone you love but perspective is important too.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929

31 posted on 04/12/2020 2:02:22 PM PDT by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: grundle

I never knew how stupid so many of you were until this pandemic. I knew there was something wrong, I knew I didn’t understand a lot of you, but I never really knew what it is until now.


32 posted on 04/12/2020 2:03:35 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: grundle

I like Iceland’s data. One of the few places trying to do actual science, HOWEVER, their overall all population is small. It could be applied to a state with a similar population density, but the math cannot be applied for US as a whole.

Iceland has a population of about 357k. That means that it is similar to Wyoming. They have had about 261 documented cases andrews zero deaths.


33 posted on 04/12/2020 2:06:58 PM PDT by jrestrepo (See you all in Galt's gulch)
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To: DugwayDuke

“Words often used to describe the first wave: “It’s just the flu, nothing to worry about.””

If it isnt a flu....then why are you using an actual flu from 100 years ago to push an assumption that there would be “highly lethal” waves in the future?


34 posted on 04/12/2020 2:12:36 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: grundle

Knowledge of Hillary Clinton has a higher CFR than Coronavirus.


35 posted on 04/12/2020 2:13:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: dhs12345

“Epstein Didn’t Have Coronavirus”


36 posted on 04/12/2020 2:13:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Lol. Lemme guess, he was murdered. My how times have changed in just a few months.


37 posted on 04/12/2020 2:15:44 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“7 divided by 1600 is 0.4%, not 0.004%.

Flu is around 0.1%”
Thank God someone has a brain and/or a calculator. The .004% figure comes from this idiot in the Daily Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8210401/Iceland-finds-half-population-asymptomatic-infected-Covid-19.html
Ryan Fahey (moron squared)
What’s amazing is that the EDITORS at the Daily Mail couldn’t figure this out either - and 2 hours later they haven’t corrected the article. They probaby believe there were 150 million gun deaths since 2007 in the US also, like Joe Biden said.


38 posted on 04/12/2020 2:17:20 PM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: grundle

Fake.


39 posted on 04/12/2020 2:19:25 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: exDemMom

“The death rate is not calculated on the basis of who has been tested, but on confirmed cases...”
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Mama always said “Assumption is the Mother of all Foul Ups”. She actually used stronger language. Seriously, for COVID-19 all the data needed for the correct denominator is not yet known. Most of the missing data are the number of infected but not yet “confirmed”. That missing data will be known, in a statistically valid manner, in the coming weeks and will yield a HUGELY LOWER death rate.


40 posted on 04/12/2020 2:22:12 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS A PRETEXT!)
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