[exDemMom]

Sounds like you’re for permanent lock down for any infectious respiratory disease and you like to make things up, e.g.5% mortality.

1,360,039 cases as of 08:15 AM EDT today.
75,973 deaths.
75,973/1,360,039 = 0.0559, or 5.59%.

I am not going to make up fictitious massive numbers of asymptomatic cases just to inflate the denominator to make the death rate look lower. There is no actual data (as in specific antibody titer measurements taken from a random sampling or even targeted sampling of the population) to support making ANY kind of assessment of asymptomatic cases.

Case fatality rates are only calculated from actual diagnosed cases, after the resolution of known cases. They are not based on guesstimates.

[ifinnegan]

“Case fatality rates are only calculated from actual diagnosed cases...”

Case fatality now you say.

Your exact words I responded to were.

“A cold virus that causes over 5% mortality in people it infects cannot be taken lightly.”

No mention of case mortality, in fact quite the opposite in that you explicitly specified all infected.

You’re moving to goalposts or playing word games.

Why?