You could look at demographics, but that’s not quite PC, so they have to be quietly ignored.
Whats different?
Treatment protocols
Populations
Virus
Environment
Really, scientific inquiry takes time. People are very impatient.
What’s new. That is the way it always is.
We have a numerator and denominator problem. We have no idea what the denominator is and with them classifying almost everything as a covid death we have a big numerator problem.
I suspect it is also a function of how they record the cause of death.
Sweden has a case mortality rate of 9%.
Are they only testing the very sick? Or is their treatment protocols off? Or something genetic? Or something else?
Sum Ting Wong.
I read that there are actually 3 variants of the virus. Some are more deadly than others.
I have two anecdotal observations that have impacted my understanding of the general populations interpretation of danger.
Lesson 1: Many people don’t recognize danger when it hits them in the face. I was attending a education conference with about 30 CPA’s. We were instructed to evacuate because there was an armed bank robbery in process ac cross the street from our classroom. When everyone exited the building everyone but me went to the front of the building to see what was happening. For some reason they didn’t understand that bullets would be able to travel the distance.
Lesson 2: About 1 month after 9-11 I checked prices of flights and cruises. They were so low it cost less to travel than to stay home. Everyone was terrified of another hijack. When actually the airports had more national guards than passengers and everyone was watching everyone else. It was probably never safer to fly.
In mass, people both exaggerate danger and underestimate it in extremes.
“””a case fatality rate of just over 4 percent. But the true mortality rate of COVID-19 is almost certainly much lower”””
Let’s hope this turns out to be true.