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I for one am not concerned. The true mortality rate appears to be <1% and of that 90% are >65. What does that mean? To put it into perspective you may only kno
by citilife 6y ago
I for one am not concerned. The true mortality rate appears to be <1% and of that 90% are >65. What does that mean?
To put it into perspective you may only know one person in your friend group which knows one person who dies.
Your friends / family are more likely to die of cancer.
How often do you know someone die of cancer?
It's definitely unfortunate; we should all socially distance & wear N95's where possible. All of us can decide if we want to stay locked down or not. Probably half the population will, so the spread will be much lower than otherwise. The rest of the population can keep working, making money and feeding their children.
- hinkley 6y ago> How often do you know someone die of cancer? That depends on how many smokers and ex-smokers you know. It makes it all the sadder because the death was preventable. Which puts it into a similar headspace with Covid.
- pelagicAustral 6y agoBecause obviously only smokers die of cancer...
- hinkley 6y agoI can always count on developers to ignore the emotional cost of a decision or action and only count the wall clock time. It's why Scrum is fundamentally rotten at its core.
- lostapathy 6y agoDeath rate will surely go up if there are multiple strains of this going around that are different enough you could catch 'em all, over time.
- kube-system 6y agoIt is important to note that the current mortality rate is the mortality rate with treatment, and with varying degrees of spread mitigation measures. If hospitalization rates exceed the available beds, the mortality rate will rise.
- scribu 6y agoWhat about "long covid"? It looks like 1 in 10 people infected experience symptomps for more than 12 weeks. [1] Just because you aren't likely to die doesn't mean you'd be fine. [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/theprevalenceoflongcovidsymptomsandcovid19complications https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/theprevalen...