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You know 7,600 people die every day in the US right? 2.8M a year. We don't shut anything down for those. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://

by eric_b 6y ago

You know 7,600 people die every day in the US right? 2.8M a year. We don't shut anything down for those. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm Im not saying COVID isn't a big deal. I'm saying the response was an overreaction. We need perspective on the actual severity. If the serological studies coming out are accurate, the total number of deaths is likely ~250k max. That's an alzheimers + suicides. National policy needs to be driven by statistics not emotion.

ImprovedSilence 6y ago
>> If the serological studies coming out are accurate That's a BIG optimistic assumption to make. And every optimistic assumption that's been made relative to COVID has only fucked us over further. I'm not sure I'm ready to buy into that yet, cuz if it's off and the CFR is tipped the other way, we could be talking up to 30M deaths, not just 250k...