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To: ro_dreaming; CatOwner; edh

As was pointed out, you messed up the math. Based on those figures, the death rate is 1.6%. That is still low, and most of those were in extremely vulnerable groups (diabetic, very overweight, over 75). Certainly not all, but most.

But put that aside. That number (1.6%) is wrong for 2 reasons.

First, the number of cases was undoubtedly much higher - many people were/are asymptomatic, and even if they had symptoms they were so mild as to not warrant a Covid test, let alone a hospital or doctor visit.

Second, many of the Covid tests produced false positives - the PCR test was seriously misused (and we can argue whether that was done for reasons of stupidity or evil, but there were a LOT of false positives - because what happened to the flu last year, did no one have it?).

Third, many of the deaths blamed on Covid were falsely reported (and there was money in doing this). Dying WITH Covid in your body is a whole other animal vs. dying BECAUSE OF Covid. Too many of the former are included in the death figures, and we will simply never know how many or what percentage.

All of this mitigates toward a substantially lower death rate (but not 0.016% - that’s a bit too low).


71 posted on 09/28/2021 8:45:27 PM PDT by Ancesthntr
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To: Ancesthntr

The 1.6 per cent is for all those known confirmed cases of covid. It is not the rate for the total population at large. That number WOULD be much smaller...like 0.30 percent.

If you catch covid, you have a 1.6 per cent chance of dying, period. I do fear the percentage is larger across the larger population for those who catch the disease and escape immediate death, but may suffer lingering side effects.

It wouldn’t surprise me to soon hear mention of a 5 year survival rate post covid of those who catch the disease.


74 posted on 09/28/2021 9:04:44 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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