As BlueKona stated in an earlier post, this is what matters, and here is a link. Old news actually, data has been available for a couple of weeks.
Sure.. (all legitimate sources, no tabloids)
exactly.. This is the most exaggerated pandemic ever.. A healthy person has probably less than 0.1% to die from this virus IF infected..
The IMPORTANT number is how many people are infected. To get an accurate death rate, you need to know the amount of people who have or had the virus and the current number of those infected is likely only about 5 to 10 percent of the official number.
Seems like an unfeeling way to look at it, but I think you are right. What we don't know also now, is how many people will die, or die later prematurely because they had their elective surgery delayed. And then there are the broken families and suicides because of the economic recession.
People are more likely depressed and commit suicide because of the consequences of the shut down.. I personally think that the shut down is makeing a minimal difference than just letting the virus run it's course. It's just like a more deadly version of the flu. It sucks but what sucks even more is that our economy is crippled by the shut down and the lives of 50+ times more people than died of COVID-19 are being destroyed by the shut down. It's really a no win situation..
The problem with all the numbers is that the death rate is likely 0.2% and not 3+%. There are several pieces of evidence to suggest that the death rate numbers are wrong as 96% or so who have the virus have no symptoms at all and won't get tested. At 0.2% death rate, you are looking at 80,000 to 120,000 deaths in the US if left unmitigated which is about the same that we will have with the current policies which effectively did not help. Let's just look at this years flu numbers which are very high too.. The current policies would have slowed flu infections too of they would actually work but they didn't. The main problem with COVID-19 is that the majority who have it will never have any symptoms. It's hard to stop the spread when 96% don't know that they are passing it on. Of course we can't shut down our country like China did because we have something that they don't have.. It's called civil rights or constitutional rights. A virus does not eliminate the constitution. You can't place curfews on people without due process. (5th amendment that freedom can't be taken without probable cause or due process). A virus does not suspend the constitution!
The problem is that you can make a case for something easily if the numbers are accurate.. We can fairly accurately estimate how much CO2 it takes to produce an EV battery and how long it takes until the EV makes up for that additional CO2 to prove that they are responsible for less CO2.. If the numbers used are accurate, you can make an OBJECTIVE point. However, if the numbers are not accurate, the statistics presented won't be either. As I pointed out based on several studies that are not from conspiracy theorists but reliable sources like Universities show that the number infected is likely AT LEAST 10 times the number of those who are getting tested. This means that the death rate is much lower than expected. With so many asymptomatic people, it's close to impossible to stop the spread as people are not aware that they are spreading it. In the US, there will likely be 120k deaths from this virus as it is likely 2 - 3 times more deadly than the flu but the point is that it's not 30 times more dangerous. I doubt that the number of dead people would be significantly higher if we would not have shut down the economy. Healthy adults have close to zero chance to die from this virus.
Even if the death rates are accurate (despite including suicides and drug overdoses), the numer of deaths from COVID 19 ia still less than flu deaths in most US states.
