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I'm assuming they wanted a higher percentage of the population to change their behavior and fully comply with lockdowns/masks/vaccine passports/etc. in response

I'm assuming they wanted a higher percentage of the population to change their behavior and fully comply with lockdowns/masks/vaccine passports/etc. in response to a coronavirus with a 99.98% survival rate.

LatteLazy 5y ago
2.5% death rate here in England. 112k deaths from 4.4m cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England
- throwitaway1235 5y ago
  2.5% is not accurate. 4.4 million confirmed UK cases. It's widely known that a large number of cases were never reported/confirmed.
  - ChrisRR 5y ago
    There's also the discrepancy that the UK counts deaths within 28 days of a covid diagnosis. So while it's statistically likely that most people did die due to covid, some won't have I wonder how much those two even out
  - LatteLazy 5y ago
    Op says the death rate is 0.02%. We have a whole bunch of figures for the death count, all around or above 112k but let's take the much lower 85k excess deaths for just 2020 [0] 85k / 0.0002 would mean 425 million people had had covid in England. England only has 55 million people. [0] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 If you don't like my number, please suggest your own. But anyone saying 99.98% survive is being silly.
    - bandana 5y ago
      600k excess deaths in the US, which is 0.02% of the 328 million population - ie, 99.98% of the us population survived the virus in 2020. Is it silly ? Edit : it is, my bad, added a zero. It should read 0.2%, not 0.02%.
      - perl4ever 5y ago
        Another way to look at it is that in January, when things were worst, weekly deaths from everything were about 50% higher than "normal" for 2015-19. That's not precisely the same as covid-19 deaths, nor does it represent the whole of 2020, but it's pretty staggering and suggests what would happen if it was left untreated.
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      - ChrisRR 5y ago
        Errrrr you do know you don't count people who haven't had the virus in survival rates, right? If they haven't had it, they haven't survived it.
ChrisRR 5y ago
Did you forget to multiply by 100 for the percentage or something? I just calculated the survival rate for the US as 98.2%

LatteLazy 5y ago

2.5% death rate here in England. 112k deaths from 4.4m cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England

throwitaway1235 5y ago
2.5% is not accurate. 4.4 million confirmed UK cases. It's widely known that a large number of cases were never reported/confirmed.
- ChrisRR 5y ago
  There's also the discrepancy that the UK counts deaths within 28 days of a covid diagnosis. So while it's statistically likely that most people did die due to covid, some won't have I wonder how much those two even out
- LatteLazy 5y ago
  Op says the death rate is 0.02%. We have a whole bunch of figures for the death count, all around or above 112k but let's take the much lower 85k excess deaths for just 2020 [0] 85k / 0.0002 would mean 425 million people had had covid in England. England only has 55 million people. [0] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 If you don't like my number, please suggest your own. But anyone saying 99.98% survive is being silly.
  - bandana 5y ago
    600k excess deaths in the US, which is 0.02% of the 328 million population - ie, 99.98% of the us population survived the virus in 2020. Is it silly ? Edit : it is, my bad, added a zero. It should read 0.2%, not 0.02%.
    - perl4ever 5y ago
      Another way to look at it is that in January, when things were worst, weekly deaths from everything were about 50% higher than "normal" for 2015-19. That's not precisely the same as covid-19 deaths, nor does it represent the whole of 2020, but it's pretty staggering and suggests what would happen if it was left untreated.
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    - ChrisRR 5y ago
      Errrrr you do know you don't count people who haven't had the virus in survival rates, right? If they haven't had it, they haven't survived it.

ChrisRR 5y ago

Did you forget to multiply by 100 for the percentage or something? I just calculated the survival rate for the US as 98.2%