The good news is that the actual mortality rate is likely almost no different than a typical flu virus.
And the bad news is that when you do get it, it’s a nasty mofo that you may not walk away from
“The good news is that the actual mortality rate is likely almost no different than a typical flu virus.”
yep: “the figure in one county could be more than 50 times the number who knew they had had the virus.” meaning the mortality rate could be 50 times lower than the various wild ass guesses being thrown around, particularly by the gaggle of “sky is falling” trolls that keep post BS articles with ridiculous mortality rates ...
also, that level of infection is good news for at least three other reason:
1. Herd immunity is well underway, so this thing will burn itself out sooner than the “experts” expected.
2. There’s no rational reason to keep economies shutdown in any fashion whatsoever, because the cat is already WAY, WAY, WAY out of the bag already.
3. “contact-tracing” is useless, again because the cat is WAY, WAY, WAY out of the bag already.
“The good news is that the actual mortality rate is likely almost no different than a typical flu virus.”
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What these figures mean to me is that the mortality rate, OVERALL, is likely LOWER than that of many annual flu epidemics. But, given the short time this virus has been extant in the USA, COVID-19 is likely MUCH MORE CONTAGIOUS than ordinary flu viruses. And lastly, compared to the typical flu, COVID-19 may be much more deadly to highly vulnerable and people with comorbidities.
Between 5 and 20% of people get the flu each year. Around 70% would catch Covid19 fiver did nothing.