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Global Covid-19 deaths hit 5M

3 points by awb 5y ago

cratermoon 5y ago
The US alone is 700,000 of those, or ~14%. The United States population is equivalent to 4.25% of the total world population.
KronisLV 5y ago
That's a pretty huge number, considering that my country doesn't even have 2M inhabitants. That said, it appears that globally there have been around 235 million cases in total, so the mortality rate is somewhere around 2%: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I'm not sure how humanity would deal with something that has higher mortality, because in my country a lot of non-lifesaving procedures in hospitals have been halted due to there simply not being enough capacity to treat everyone. Even more so, i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life. It feels like a complicated issue, even when we don't look at how certain elements of society have expressed their disregard for getting vaccinated. On the bright side, coming out of this situation, we'll know that certain jobs can be done without commuting for countless hours (which works at least for some individuals), to hopefully at least slightly decrease traffic accident statistics and road congestion, as well as increase the quality of life for those more introverted, or with life circumstances in which being at home is preferable.
- cratermoon 5y ago
  > i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life. And the short-sightedness of businesses that demanded re-opening too early out of concern for their profits. They didn't consider the long-term economic impacts of the repeated half-hearted "lockdown", reopening, spike in cases, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not just talking about the probably permanent damage to the travel and tourism industries or the losses incurred by businesses, but also the loss of jobs and income by people who, through no fault of their own, were laid off or had their hours cut back.

3 points by awb 5y ago

The US alone is 700,000 of those, or ~14%. The United States population is equivalent to 4.25% of the total world population.

KronisLV 5y ago

That's a pretty huge number, considering that my country doesn't even have 2M inhabitants. That said, it appears that globally there have been around 235 million cases in total, so the mortality rate is somewhere around 2%: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I'm not sure how humanity would deal with something that has higher mortality, because in my country a lot of non-lifesaving procedures in hospitals have been halted due to there simply not being enough capacity to treat everyone. Even more so, i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life. It feels like a complicated issue, even when we don't look at how certain elements of society have expressed their disregard for getting vaccinated. On the bright side, coming out of this situation, we'll know that certain jobs can be done without commuting for countless hours (which works at least for some individuals), to hopefully at least slightly decrease traffic accident statistics and road congestion, as well as increase the quality of life for those more introverted, or with life circumstances in which being at home is preferable.

cratermoon 5y ago
> i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life. And the short-sightedness of businesses that demanded re-opening too early out of concern for their profits. They didn't consider the long-term economic impacts of the repeated half-hearted "lockdown", reopening, spike in cases, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not just talking about the probably permanent damage to the travel and tourism industries or the losses incurred by businesses, but also the loss of jobs and income by people who, through no fault of their own, were laid off or had their hours cut back.