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Vermont Lt ~ I would think the case fatality rate would be measured across people who are confirmed to have had the virus

And 20 years ago, how did you confirm a totally asymptomatic case?

YOU DIDN'T!

You couldn't without a PCR and an antibody test. Mass PCR and antibody testing of individuals who weren't frankly sick simply wasn't available.

Only people with full blow cases who were sick enough to see a doctor ever got counted in the denominator.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY we are counting people who were never, ever actually sick with a given disease in the denominator to calculate that disease's fatality rate.

There can be no meaningful comparison to any historical pandemic from this point on.

You can tell your grandchildren that you were there the day the universe changed....

[kvanbrunt2]

I agree with you and have stated this everywhere i go. But you cannot reason with people who have divorced themselves from reason.