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The chances of young people dying from Covid are slimmer than them dying from being struck by lightning. There is no need to exaggerate.
by tinus_hn 5y ago
The chances of young people dying from Covid are slimmer than them dying from being struck by lightning.
There is no need to exaggerate.
- maxerickson 5y agoMore US children have died from Covid than US people die from lightning strikes in 10 years, so I wonder if you've not quite compared like for like there.
- natmaka 5y ago"Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children" Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w/
- maxerickson 5y agoYeah, so? The US has attributed hundreds of deaths to Covid among those under 18, compared to a couple dozen lightning deaths a year in total.
- tinus_hn 5y agoWell there is your exaggeration: you claim ‘hundreds’ while the article states ‘25’. Which is pretty similar to ‘couple dozen’.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe US is not England.
- tinus_hn 5y agoThat is true, and I see the chances of being killed by lightning are pretty slim. So the chances of any child in the US dying from covid-19 turns out to be about 70 times as much as that child dying from lightning. Still, extremely unlikely.