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To: amorphous
As of yesterday, 250 have died from the coronavirus in Korea. By tonight or certainly tomorrow night, according to worldofmeters.info, the US will top 70,000 deaths. Same data source for both Korean numbers and US numbers. It's just like Forrest said, "stupid is as stupid does".

Since underlying conditions have an impact on death rates, I just did a quick search and found out 36.5% of US adults are obese, while only 4% of South Korean adults are obese. Coincidence?

152 posted on 05/04/2020 5:08:33 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Go Gordon

You need to break those numbers out by age groups. You need to provide sources for your data. You need to provide percentages of those who died who are obese. Percent of US infected vs percent of Korea infected (stage of disease). Likelihood of further spread in Korea vs US. And any other factors that might come into play. I’m interested, but I’m not going to do the research for you, other than to say I used your numbers and back of the napkin calculations with 100% of those dying being obese, still need six times the number in Korea to die just to equal current deaths in US based on your seriously inadequate available and unsourced information.


173 posted on 05/04/2020 8:30:24 PM PDT by amorphous
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