Jarhyn
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That is untrue. In the US, the covid-19 Case Fatality Ratio is 6.1. In other countries, it is as high as 16.4%. That means that for every 100 people who have tested positive for covid-19, somewhere between 6 and 16 people die. And then there are the people who end up in the hospital needing urgent care.
Ah, statistics. As said numerous times, I am skeptical of these numbers and you should be too. Looking at that web site the numbers vary from .1% to 16.4%. That is waaaaay too wide a range to be meaningful or reliable.The reality is, we don't know how many people have had it and never knew because they had no symptoms. Mass testing may shed a better light on things later.
Mass testing is starting to be done and it's not going exactly your way. A study in Spain with antibody tests in a representative sample indicates 5% in thre country have been infected. Given Spain's population of 47 million and a known death toll of 27k+ suggests a CFR of 1-1.2%
https://english.elpais.com/society/...paniards-have-contracted-the-coronavirus.html
When has data that conflicts with {TSwizzle, Derec, Dismal, Trausti, Metaphor, Angelo, Tigers!, LionIRC} ever made any difference in their claims? These people don't operate on (evidence implies principle), they operate on (argument to support belief). You can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.
Even if we were looking at a death rate of .1%, a one in one thousand death rate, that's far too small of a dice for me to roll it even once, let alone forcing everyone in the country to roll it because it's "not significant enough to care about".