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"Poor Mr Thompson and poor Liberty7732; trying to bring logic and reason to a forum filled with folks who are already drunk on the panic Koolaid, convinced they are wonderful saviors by participating in hibernating everyone from everyone at the government’s command. Meanwhile bad ole “socialist” Sweden ignores that Koolaid."
If I hear the name Jay Bhattacharya one more time I will vomit. Normal seasonal flu kills 30,000 per year in the US. We have had 15,000 deaths in one week. What the f*** is wrong with you? Logic and Reason? No, stupidity and asinine remarks. The article states "Denmark, Scotland and Germany have done thorough antibody testing in specific locals and found infection rates between 12 and 27 times higher than they thought and models had projected. And a majority of the people were either asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms. This means that the death rate might be wildly lower than is currently suggested, as low as 0.2 percent — which would be very near to the normal flu."
Normal flu has a death rate of around .1%.
But more than .1% of New York City has already died of Covid19 - 10,000 out of 9 million! Even assuming EVERYONE in NYC has the disease, it obviously has a higher death rate than the flu. There is not a shred of evidence that all 9 million residents of NYC have the disease. That is the stupidest, most retarded BS ever.

1. “If I hear the name Jay Bhattacharya one more time I will vomit.” Go ahead. I have no idea who in the h Jay Bhattacharya is.

2. “Normal seasonal flu kills 30,000 per year in the US.” No. The average of the last to seasons together is closer to 48,000, and has been as high as 61,000 (2017-2018 season).

3. “But more than .1% of New York City has already died of Covid19 - 10,000 out of 9 million!. A. Wrong. Maybe you lumped all of NY state into NYC. B. National averages always include locals that have higher than average rates and lower than average rates, and they often relate to population density. C. Just because a locale has a higher rate than is expected for a national average does not make using the national average wrong. With NYC’s population density its expected rate of the seasonal flu itself is higher than a national average, on a per million population basis. Communicable diseases move faster in more densely populated places. That does not make them the standard to use, nor does it make national averages wrong.

“But more than .1% of New York City has already died of Covid19 - 10,000 out of 9 million!”

Umm...10,000 ÷ 9,000,000 = 0.0011. Thats .11%. Even with the giant blue text.