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Why do you guys keep quoting a 99% survival rate?

Once you’ve been diagnosed, there’s a >2.8% chance of death. (Total cases so far: 7,497,980. Total deaths: 212,702. See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). Do the math - that’s a CFR for people in which infection is confirmed of 2.83%.

Death aside, roughly 30-40% of cases of even ASYMPTOMATIC people are reporting major health issues “after” recovery. Just this AM read 2 stories within a minute of each other..first, 30 year old perfectly health rock climber. Got COVID and was hospitalized. Never went into the ICU, though. “Recovered” but has permanent damage to her heart and veins. Can’t walk half a block. Can no longer have caffeine or alcohol, as her heart races to 180+ while just sitting. Second story very similar - “perfectly healthy” person in their late 30s. Very similar outcome..yeah, didn’t DIE, but was major league screwed over with permanent health problems.

Deaths alone are not the whole problem with this virus, although that’s a big enough deal with a nearly 3% CFR.

To get to a “99%” number, you have to play some serious games with the denominator and ASSUME that there are at least 10X the “confirmed” cases out there. But no-one knows how many non-confirmed cases there are, so that’s pure conjecture and nothing else.

Let’s not play the same game the left does and repeat a lie often enough for it to be believed. The CFR is nearly three percent, and that’s based solely on deaths/confirmed cases.