[Eleutheria5]

This is a fake crisis with a fake solution that’s worse than the fake crisis, and they’re exploiting old people for nefarious purposes.

[bert]

Reality says otherwise.

Old people make up the overwhelming numbers of virus related deaths. Frailty is the death factor

Younger folks are presently being shown to have the disease but apparently shake it off with no hospitalization or death. Kids apparently are seemingly immune

[central_va]

Without knowing all of the details, some general odds can still be roughly concluded. Your odds of dying in a car crash, over the span of your entire life, are somewhere in between 1 and 50 and 1 and 100.

So the odds of dying in a car crash is higher than dying from COVID-19 for those under 50.

[Almondjoy]

I guess when death strikes your family you will sing a different tune.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties

How many parties? 200? 2? Fake news?

[VideoDoctor]

This is a fake crisis with a fake solution that’s worse than the fake crisis, and they’re exploiting old people for nefarious purposes.

You're right about that.

NPR: "Mounting Evidence" Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again?
NPR  | July 3, 2020 | NPR

A new NPR report suggests the global response to COVID-19 may have been reached on a flawed premise.

Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.

The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.

The tests are finding large numbers of people in the US who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.

"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

"The public is behaving as if this epidemic is the next Spanish flu, which is frankly understandable given that initial reports have staked COVID-19 mortality at about 2-3 percent, quite similar to the 1918 pandemic that killed tens of millions of people," Jeremy Samuel Faust an emergency medicine physician and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote in Slate. "Allow me to be the bearer of good news. These frightening numbers are unlikely to hold."

Similarly, on March 5 vaccine expert Paul A. Offit, who holds the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania, told Factcheck.org that he believed that the World Health Organization's 3.4 percent fatality rate figure was too high, suggesting it was well below 1 percent.

"We're more the victim of fear than the virus," Offit said, adding that the world was witnessing a "wild overreaction" to the disease.

https://fee.org/articles/npr-mounting-evidence-suggests-covid-not-as-deadly-as-thought-did-the-experts-fail-again/