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To: 11th_VA
Why don’t you acquire the virus. Then tell us how the experience was a ‘nothing burger’ if you survive.

Which, depending on his/her age, is a 98%+ probability.

You perfectly exemplify the irrational panic over this.

54 posted on 03/01/2020 7:36:06 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

Which, depending on his/her age, is a 98%+ probability.


It is indeed very probable (in excess of 99.999%) that if you catch the coronavirus you will not die instantly. It is also so that the disease would not be spreading if it were the case that the infected died instantly. Your number is derived from not understanding that deaths from the virus happen during the progress of the disease rather than up-front.

The actual numbers even outside of China (with Hong Kong and Singapore) and Iran show much different figures than you seem to think were derived.

Catching coronavirus, and not spontaneously exploding, does not mean that you’ve survived the disease.


59 posted on 03/01/2020 8:22:28 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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