Only if you think cuomo presentation is wrong because that what they quoted. Also you numbers are wrong 15,000 is only .18% of 1.6 million not 1.8%. Also death

Only if you think cuomo presentation is wrong because that what they quoted. Also you numbers are wrong 15,000 is only .18% of 1.6 million not 1.8%. Also death lag infections in numbers but that wouldn't change the ratio of deaths to infections. Unless the infection rates are going up or down. Right now infection rates are lowering so you'd expect the death to infection rate to continue to stay in line with the 0.5% infection rate. Also we have never shut down the economy with other disease it was generally assumed that you'd at least have limited immunity to disease with antibodies. I don't think swine flu or bird flu had this react why should this. If we know only the sickest people are getting sick why don't we lift the quaretine on the people less likely to get sick or people with antibodies. It seems like we made the lockdown decision based on a lack of data. I don't know if continuing to do it when we do make sense. Especially because it could make people more sick not less. Edit: correction used 8 million as denominator. 89% is correct