“In some ways it’s been worse than the usual flu (higher mortality rate, but not that much higher, and much less than originally predicted) and in some ways it’s not as bad as usual flu (extremely low infection/death rate for younger people and children, and low for most other healthy people).”
Wrong on both counts. 28 times as likely to kill you as the common flu if you get it, and it has a distribution that is very similar to the common flu, just with a higher amplitude. If it were not for the significant mitigation efforts that were implemented, a lot more people would be dead from this.
It is astonishing that some people with access to actual data on the results of this virus are still in denial about its dangers.
The measures that were taken were necessary to save the HCS. We can sustain a low boil, now, and have developed treatments that keep things stable, if not ideal. We would actually have pretty good numbers, comparatively, if it were not for the fact that people like Cuomo are willing to kill the vulnerable just to deny President Trump a win.
Your odds of surviving, IF you catch the virus, are:
0-19 = 99.997%
20-49 = 99.98%
50-69 = 99.5
70+ = 94.6%
CDC numbers. Not “just the flu”, but hardly instant death.
It is astonishing that some people with access to actual data on the results of this virus are still in denial about its dangers.
2) Your accusations of denial of dangers? Where do you get that from?
Just like my discussion of reducing the size of government, libbers accuse me of anarchy.
Systems. We live in systems. We do not look at things in isolation. But when we look at systems it becomes clear we are not in control. Can’t have that so we go back to the minutia like masks that we think we can control.