Only 3.71 percent??? Meaning if 10 million people get it 370000 people will die. Whatever are people worried about? By the way that is sarcastic.
Did you miss the part where I explained that most of the deaths of the 3.71% death rate have been among the elderly, with most of the rest coming from people with serious immune-system issues? Did you miss the part where I pointed out that the death rate among healthy people under 70 is right around 1%? Did you somehow fail to read those points in the OP, even though you quoted it?
How many people did the 2009-2010 swine flu outbreak kill worldwide? Hey? No more than 500,000, by the most generous estimates, even though we and most other nations did not impose travel bans, did not close schools, did not shut down sports leagues, etc., etc.
Sheesh, you people blather on about how you believe in "science," but you reject it when it doesn't fit your agenda.
Did you miss the part where I simply extrapolated your mortality rate and applied it to a very modest number of infections?
And I ask--yet again--how many people did the swine flu kill in a year, from 2009-2010, even though sports leagues kept playing, even though churches did not stop meeting, even though many schools did not close, even though schools that did close only did so for a week or two, even though Obama imposed no travel ban, etc., etc., etc.?
You keep ignoring the fact that most of the deaths of the 3.7% death rate have been among the elderly and among those with preexisting immune-system issues.
What does it matter that this virus targets specific people? Are they any less death?
Uh, you are kidding, right? Right? Just how many 80-plus-year-olds do you think there are? The substantial majority of the deaths have been among that group. They constitute a very small percentage of the population, both here and abroad. You really don't get why that fact matters?
By the way, 3.71 is a higher mortality rate than most experts put forth.
SMH. Dude, this is basic math. As of yesterday, the worldwide death toll from the corona virus is 4,955 out of 132,758. That is a death rate of 3.7325%. Do the math. And I note again that the vast majority of those deaths have been among the elderly, even in the U.S.
If experts believe the rate is lower, great. I'm just going by the number of deaths out of confirmed cases.
Just as 10 million is a way lower number than experts expect to get infected. At the moment that number is expected to be between 50 and 60 percent of the populace. This equals hundreds of thousands of people just in the US. That is a non-trivial number by all accounts. H1N1 's mortality rate was 0.2 comparing it to this is simply inaccurate.
2009 H1N1 Pandemic.
No, it just means that you failed logic in school. That H1N1 death rate was after one year, after the dust has settled. We are only three months into the corona virus, and already the number of cases and deaths in the originating location (China) have dropped dramatically in the last week. In South Korea, the death rate has been 0.6%, as I documented earlier, which suggests that the current relatively low death rate will be even lower as time goes on.
There is no scientific, rational basis for the liberal fear-mongering that has panicked half the country and done great damage to our economy.
As it stands and as has happened in other countries, this virus can and does have the capability to overwhelm the capability of even rich nations to deal with the infected.
HOGWASH. The swine flu didn't "overwhelm" our medical capacity, nor that of Europe, nor that of China or Japan. The common flu, which kills 40,000 to 50,000 people and has about 9-45
million cases per year in the U.S. doesn't "overwhelm" our medical capacity. Nor do other industrialized nations get "overwhelmed" by the common flu each year.
Just remember these conversations six months from now and a from year now. Believe me, I will be here reminding liberals that all of their doom-and-gloom predictions failed to materialize.
Finally, here are some other helpful facts about the corona virus:
* It is
not heat resistant. If it is exposed to a temperature of 77 degrees or higher, it dies.
* Laundry detergent will kill it.
* It can only travel in the air for about 10 feet, and then it drops.
* It can survive on fabric or metal for no more than 12 hours—the average survival time on such surfaces is around 8 hours.
* Since it is not heat resistant, drinking warm water—77 degrees or warmer—will kill it on contact in your mouth, throat, and stomach.