[Bob434]

I’m not good at math - did that person factor in the fact that they think that 86% of people don’t even know they have it? Haven’t been tested so haven’t been counted? if that is true- it’s likely i think to lower the death rate?

[calenel]

“I’m not good at math - did that person factor in the fact that they think that 86% of people don’t even know they have it? Haven’t been tested so haven’t been counted? if that is true- it’s likely i think to lower the death rate?”

That 86% (used to be 85%, before that a mere 80%) is someone’s OCD ritual. If there were 86% of cases, undetected and wandering in the wilderness, they’d be causing hotspots like crazy. Just being asymptomatic does not mean you are not contagious (we’ve seen this, over and over).

The 86%, or 85% or 80% or 99% (yes, that has been claimed) of cases that are asymptomatic are among the already confirmed. That 99% number is absurd and clearly made up.

We won’t know the exact number of cases until everybody is tested. But if 86% of cases are unknown and still at large, expect the *worst* case scenario.

[mmichaels1970]

did that person factor in the fact that they think that 86% of people don’t even know they have it? Haven’t been tested so haven’t been counted?

That's been nagging at me too. When they talk about mortality rate, is the only denominator they are using based on CONFIRMED cases and not adding undetected ones? If 10 people die and they compare to 1000 confirmed cases, you report 1% death rate. However, if there are 9000 additional asymptomatic cases that they don't know about, that would move the decimal point one position to the left and make a very big difference.

Not that any death is insignificant, but do they really have any idea of what the true mortality rate is? I'd honestly and respectfully like to know.

[reasonisfaith]

Good to see there are still people asking the unasked questions.

[trebb]

Shhhhh - can’t have an actually super low death rate that confines itself to, almost exclusively, high-risk minority of folks...I wonder if he knows/cares how many actually die from Flu, how many show very mild symptoms (just like The Great De,m Hope Virus, or even that 40K a year die on the highways and 2 million end up with permanent injuries from car wrecks - if so, he and his family might consider pulling off at first convenient woodlands and hiking to “safety”...

[SeekAndFind]

RE: 86% Don’t even know they have it.

Where are you getting that 86% figure from?