Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Bofferbrauer2]

CrazyGamer2017 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

No need to panic, and nobody says you should. I'm just saying that your statistic and calculation is wrong due to standing on the wrong bases. No need to  mock me so aggressively for that. 

Sorry about the "aggressive" part, I just tend to get defensive when I am confronted with irrational behavior. And it's not just you, some other guy is leading a frontal charge against me and accusing me of unrelated stuff, so yeah, I have to deal with that too.

So now you are saying no need to panic, nobody says I should right? Yet, you and others clearly tell me that my 2 to 3% death rate is wrong (even though currently it's the actual rate) but ok let's assume it's wrong, the actual death rate is much higher. 10% as some suggest which means that 2.3 billion people will get infected since you guys are saying that 230 million people are going to die.

So now allow me to calmly question your last sentence: no need to panic, nobody says I should. Excuse me but if 2.3 billion people are going to get infected and 10% of them die which is 230 million, which means a strongly possible societal collapse, don't you think we SHOULD panic? I said there is no need to panic cause I assumed the death toll will be of a few thousands at the most, but some say it will be a whopping 230 million. If I'm wrong then I change my mind and I say, it's seriously time to panic and completely freak out. I mean 230 million deaths totally warrant a state of panic in my humble opinion.

Scroll down and you'll see that the only thing I addressed from the start is the 2% claim coming from taking infected vs deaths instead of recoveries vs deaths. When I mentioned the 230M, that was in regard of your claim that you'd need to infect everybody on the planet to get to those 230M with a 2% mortality rate and that with 10%, 230M would then be very conservative. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough that I only meant the difference between mortality rates, because I don't believe those 230M deaths will happen either.