But according to the screams, 150,000 deaths out of 330 million population is unacceptable.
The death rate is determined on the basis of who gets sick, not on the entire population. When the death rate is 131480 out of 2996098, or 4.388 percent (as of today, numbers are from the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 dashboard, link below), there is definitely something to worry about. Right now, less than 1% of the US population has been infected. As more people become infected, the death rate will increase. When hospital and health care worker capacities are exceeded, the death rate will increase more.
I think a lot of people do not understand that the response to Covid-19 was never about its small impact, especially a few months ago. It was always about its potential. Covid-19 occupies a “sweet spot” where its death rate is low enough to not significantly impact its ability to spread among the population, but high enough to make it a true public health threat. If it had a higher death rate, it would inhibit its own spread. Compare Covid-19 to two other recently emerged coronaviruses: SARS had a death rate of 15% and was completely controlled; MERS has a death rate of 35% and continues to circulate, but has not spread beyond where it emerged. Even now, I think the concern over Covid-19 is more about its potential, not its current impact.
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I would say the death rate s probably 70,000 with EVERYTHING being a CV19 death you can’t trust these numbers!!