[Secret Agent Man]

That 1% fatality is 1% of people who actually get infected, not 1% of the entire country population.

Further, like the flu, that 1% is not spread out evenly across everyone who gets infected. Certain demographics are going to be much higher and others much lower.

Third thing is what strain you get. they know of AT LEAST two different ones, and one is mild and one is more severe and has the lung/pneumonia issue that comes up easier.

Much of this can be prevented and risk reduced just by increasing handwashing, santizing phones and surfaces you touch, and not being in large groupings any more than you absolutely need to be. Which is what a lot of people do in the winter, anyway, just because it’s winter.

And if you don’t have kids at home that is a huge disease vector you don’t have to worry about. Otherwise you should be practicing more sanitary processes all the time not just when its flu season or the wintertime.

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That 1% fatality is 1% of people who actually get infected, not 1% of the entire country population.

The "It's just the flu, Bro" crew has taken to using the entire population of the earth as the denominator.

I was just sarcastically kidding when I suggested it.

I'm sorry!