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To: Elsie
First; you have to make it to the airport.

THEN you have to be a passenger.

I'm not sure of your point. What I am trying to illustrate is that if you catch Covid-19, you have a very real chance of dying from it (today's death rate is 1.697%). And you do have a very real chance of catching Covid-19. In the last 24 hours, 121,751 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed. The numbers of new cases have been recently dropping, but have been over 200k on most days since mid November.

If you knew that there was a 1.697% chance that every airplane will crash, would you still buy a ticket to travel by airplane?

There is a 1.697% overall chance of dying if you catch Covid-19 (your personal chance may vary; you can use the Covid-19 calculator to determine your personal risk). Knowing that, are you taking measures to avoid catching Covid-19? Do you keep your distance from people? Do you wear a mask properly?

If you would not get on board aircraft if you knew that 1.697% of them crash fatally, then why would you take chances with catching Covid-19, which is that deadly?

Your posts tell me that you do not take Covid-19 seriously. Therefore, your chance to catch it is higher than that of most people.

And my example of a high rate of fatal airplane crashes is completely hypothetical. I use that example because many people are scared to fly even though airplanes are the safest way to travel; the real chance of dying in a plane crash is one in 5.3 million. If you are scared to fly, but not concerned about catching Covid-19, your priorities are skewed.

129 posted on 02/04/2021 8:11:46 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: exDemMom
My point is that you have to actually CATCH Covid before it has a 1.697% chance to kill you.

The odds of catching it are:


 USA population          Cases      Deaths

328.2 million (2019)     26.7M        456K   
 
 
 

  8.1% rate of contacting Covid      1.7% rate of dying from Covid     0.14% USA death rate
       26,700,000 / 328,200,000               467,000 / 26,700,000    467,000 / 328,200,000
 

130 posted on 02/05/2021 5:07:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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