Threadjack alert!
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Originally Posted by c4racer
well that's an entirely different discussion, and no it doesn't.
The most interesting thing I have read about this came from Goldman Sachs investor / company briefing that basically said (without quite saying it like this) that even if 50% of the US got this virus, the mortality numbers overall for the year may not even change. Yes - 1M+ would die from this, but basically they are saying 3M die from flu / virus / disease / old age etc. and this may be contained within that number.
But that isn't a very PC thing to say or a PC position to take for a politician now is it??  |
Check your #s again.
Mortality will be between 2 and 4 million dead in the US if it goes unchecked, and these #s do not include "at risk" chronic medical conditions (diabetes, asthma, heart disease, etc. which have between 7-13% mortality each). That's quite a bit more than the 50k who die each year from the flu in the US.
Data sources:
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...-demographics/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html