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"Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991% chance of survival… as opposed to a standard viral flu season it’s 99.992%.” – Dr. Lee Merritt"

To believe that, you have to believe (1) everyone in the US has been significantly exposed and (2) only 30,000 people have died from COVID. Neither of those is plausible.

A better estimate for survival is to take 30 million cases, multiply by 2 to 5 depending on the estimate of hidden spread to get, at most, 50% of the US population exposed and having fought off the virus. The US had 3,328,580 deaths last year (preliminary numbers so could be a bit undercounted). The US had up to 2.9 million deaths in prior years (and slowly rising). That gives us about 400,000 excess deaths last year and according to a BU study 36% of those were due to deferred treatment and other lockdown-related causes. That leaves us with 256,000 COVID deaths from 165 million cases (tested and hidden) or 0.15% death rate or 99.85% survival at the very most.