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@Invalid User, If we were smart about how we went about things, yes. But instead of telling the elderly and high risk to stay home and encouraging the young and healthy to achieve herd immunity we locked EVERYONE in their homes delaying the second wave but not eliminating it and sent the infected back into nursing homes to effectively cause a wildfire of deaths among the elderly. Then you have to take into account the effect that the economic crash will have on people. The economic crisis of 2008-2010, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths — many considered treatable — in middle- and high-income countries alone. Also the stress of the pandemic will likely precipitate increased smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug use, as well as rising suicide rates.
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@Atomicking74, this is also fairly terrifying if you think of how many cases have been reported and how many new cases appear on a daily basis. The total reported number of cases, bother resolved and unresolved, is over 4 million. Comparing this number to the current number of resolved cases shows that this virus is very slow acting, and will potentially kill over a million people before it's dealt with. Which brings up another fascet of how dangerous it is, that being that there is currently no cure for the virus, either as a preventative or a treatment.
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@Atomicking74, "either in recovery..." "mortality rate" "25.25%" So the recovery is nearly 300% over the deaths/real mortality rate. Not pulling from any excess numbers, this is patently fear mongering. Not to mention how the death toll is being padded. New York city having a new policy about not testing cadavers at the scene of death, choking it up to covid. People dying of other causes, put onto covid. Not to mention the found antibodies out in California suggesting at a larger portion of the population is actually infected. All of this is bringing down the mortality rate.
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@SchroedingerPussPuss, it's become a common fact that there are more cases of corona then we know about. Asymptomatic patients, people staying home instead of getting tested, and the virus being mistaken for the common cold because of its low severity in some patients. So there's more people being sick. Another thing that is known is that deaths are not being looked into. Normally when a patient dies the most extreme thing they had is blamed for their death. For example a cancer patients gets hit by a car you'd not say he died of cancer. This disease is not being treated like that records and eye witness testimony, in hospitals and funeral parlors have come out to say as much. Lastly, flu fatalities have hit a massive low, speculations say they are being rolled into covid. So, more people sick, less people dying, so the mortality rate is far lower then we think.
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@SchroedingerPussPuss, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm I just combed through the numbers, looks roughly right. They go off of the death certificates which has been shown to have errors. But it is what it is. As for the numbers, until everyone is tested we won't know the numbers of how many have been infected.
People need to realize that a 1 percent mortality rate is still terrifying with something as infectious as this is. We don't have to do insane lockdowns if we'd just respect basic science. Instead people wear masks wrong, and fail to social distance. It's not hard