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Conina on 18 April 2020
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Nautilus said:
Conina said:

0.001% of one million = 10 people.
0.001% of one billion = 10,000 people.
0.001% of eight billion = 80,000 people.

We are already way above that point and the pandemic is far from over.

Every fifth of the (known) closed cases ended in death worldwide, only 4 of 5 survived.

In the US even more than every third of the (known) closed cases ended in death worldwide, not even 2 of 3 survived.

"US has achieved a significant lower mortality rate than almost all other countries" (Donald Trump, today in the press briefing)

You wanna play the number game?Fine, let's do it:

Now you ask me: is 150k deaths because of one single disease extremely low?One that once the cure is found, almost no one will die of it?As cold hearted as it is to say this, yes.Yes it is.

You wanna defend his bollocks "0.001%"?

And it is 157k so far with only 2.3 million known cases. Without these lockdowns / "social distancing" there would already be much more and without trying to slow down the spreading, numbers would rise exponentially.

As long as the health system can manage the cases, mortality rate can be kept down. F.e. here in Germany we have been that lucky so far, "only" every 20th of the closed cases ended in death:

But without trying to slow down the spreading virus (or not doing enough to slow down the spreading), the number of serious/critical cases will soon be bigger than the number of patients which can be treated at the same time.

And when that happens, doctors and nurses will have to "triage" (decide who gets treated and who doesn't get treated)... and then the mortality rate will go way up. Therefore it is in everyones interest to avoid that horror scenario by flattening the curve.

Last edited by Conina - on 18 April 2020