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SvennoJ on 23 February 2020
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
1. That ain't objective at all. It takes quite a while before someone infected would die so the statistic is skewed against the mortality rate. Hence why your 2% number is simply way too low.Taking death vs recovery numbers instead is a more realistic notion, since both are about the outcome of an infection, be it positive or negative.2. Nope, I actually watch seldom any movies. I just know how to read statistics properly, that's all.

Amazing Einstein, you know how to read statistics, I tip my hat to you sir. And now we know for sure (since you know how to read statistics) that we are fucked. It's the end, collapse is just around the corner so start crapping your pants, take a gun and go kill people randomly in the street, it's ok, if you don't kill them, they will die anyway because of this virus so you're not really doing anything bad by killing them, in fact you make their dying quick and painless vs a protracted and potentially painful death by the virus, also no one will be around to judge you and put you in jail.

Also as of right now, everybody stop posting in all the other threads in the forum cause they are all irrelevant now. Politics? we are all dead so there won't be an election in November, talking about it is now pointless. Video games? Whatever games are in the making will never be released cause we are all going to die soon. Movies, sports, NSFW, miscellaneous etc... all pointless, we are dead men walking.

So what to do now? Panic everybody I guess, what else are we supposed to do? It's the end of the world. Too bad it's the middle of winter cause if this was summer I'd get completely naked and run around in the streets of my city just for the lolz and if someone told me something I'd tell them it's ok, the end of the world is upon us and this time it's for absolutely sure, no question whatsoever, cause some dude online know how to read statistics PROPERLY!

It sounds like you're the one that's panicking. The world will go on, life will go on. Indeed very likely not everyone will get infected when it spirals out of control and spreads like the flu, perhaps a way to combat the effects and increase survival rate will be found as well.

But things are serious when 20% of cases end up seriously ill to critical condition status.

The Diamond Princess is a good micro cosmos for any estimates on infection rate. It normally has 2670 passengers and 1100 crew. The first batch of 621 passengers have now been cleared, 691 confirmed infected, 17 recovered, 3 deaths so far and 36 serious/critical. Infection rate of just over 18% despite the efforts to contain spreading of the virus.

Of course not everywhere in the world has the same medical resources to care for the critical cases. That 2% figure is already too low and if nothing is found while the virus gets away, it will certainly go up. Not the end of the world, but it's right to take this seriously.

But if you want to go run around in the street naked, go for it.