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Selection bias.

• ravenstine 6y ago
  That statistic, though I'm still skeptical of it, doesn't really surprise me that much. At least 20% of the people I know are very neurotic, and I could picture them traumatizing themselves over the possibility that they might die from COVID. I know several people who are deathly afraid of the disease, and a few whom are hypochondriacs to begin with and haven't left their homes in the last 8 months. I would bet good money that, if they became infected, they would give themselves permanent mental scars over it.