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So you get the virus and you will be fine but you will infect your grand parents and kill them. Or you infect your old professor, go worker, your friend who jus
by eveningcoffee 7y ago
So you get the virus and you will be fine but you will infect your grand parents and kill them. Or you infect your old professor, go worker, your friend who just had heart or lung issues and kill them too.
Is not about personal risk, it is about global risk.
- viraptor 7y ago> Is not about personal risk, it is about global risk. It depends what you want to know about. It's either one of those. Or both.
- eveningcoffee 7y agoTrue. I just included my comment because I think the view of this has to be balanced. People should not just look of their bracket and dismiss the elderly.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoI said in another thread...obviously a lot people in the 70's and 80's die anyway. How do we calculate cause of death in that case? If, say, 15% of 85+ yo people die anyway a year, will it matter if they died from regular flu or from this?
- eveningcoffee 7y agoI think it matters if they have now higher likelihood to die (it looks like surviving flu is more likely than covid-19) and if they do so in large numbers overwhelming the healthcare system (so also other people have higher likelihood to die).
- onetimemanytime 7y agoMaybe I read it here or in an article, but quarantines might ensure that not everyone gets it at the same time. So even if we are bound to get it, it pays to get it in stages
- eveningcoffee 7y agoI agree.
- viraptor 7y agoFor the statistics - won't matter very much. For the person affected - yes. These percentages are for survival of infected people. You already know the person is infected, and you count how many died before they fight off infection.