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Torillian on 18 April 2020
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Nautilus said:
Conina said:

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/malaria/GHO/malaria

Perhaps you should read the text instead of just looking at numbers.

The mortality rate of malaria wasn't 28% of 216 million in 2016 (that would have been 60.48 million deaths).

The decrease of the mortality rate between 2010 and 2016 was 28%, so the chances of survival got better.

435,000 malaria deaths / 216 million malaria cases = 0.2% mortality rate, not 28% mortality rate.

And do you think that the number of covid-19 deaths will be lower than 435,000 at the end of this year if the number is already at 157,000 in April, with over 1.5 million active cases and the number of new infections is still rising?

I was wrong about the numbers, but according to the other user, malaria apparently still kills 400k every year on average.Plus malaria is just one disease.What about the others?Why are just contesting me on this one and ignoring the others?

What I mean to point out by all of this is that the number of deaths caused by curable and uncarable disease, both easily spread and ones that are harder to spread, will be far far far higher than the corona virus, not to mention that they happen every year, while the corona virus will mostly be confined to this one.So why we have a lockdown for this one, while we don't have for the others?If they kill far more than the COVID 19 and happen every year, and lockdown might prove useful in halting their progress?

You all know the answer why.

We are doing quarantine because this is an unknown that is spreading quickly and killing a good number as it does so. One need only look at the deaths per month in a place like New York City to see how bad this can get and that it overtakes all other causes of death combined when it gets that bad.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html

"But even if the current count is perfect, roughly 9,780 people have died of all causes over the past month in New York City, about 5,000 more than is typical.

The numbers for the last two weeks of the period are even more stark: nearly 7,000 dead, more than three times as many deaths as would normally be expected this time of year."



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