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Unless you’re elderly or have health issues, Covid fatality rate was already very, very low. Therapeutics make that even better.

kuraudo 5y ago
That's complete nonsense. If covid wasn't as deadly as we have been reliably informed, then they would not be forcing us to go through these otherwise-draconian and insane mandates or lockdowns.
- benjaminwootton 5y ago
  I just spent 10 minutes Googling for a good source and surprisingly couldn’t find one. For under 65 say, the fatality rate is well under 1%. This was before vaccines and Omnicron is estimated as 70% lower. We must be well under the IFR of flu already.
  - _dain_ 5y ago
    I think the person you're replying to was being sarcastic
  - nradov 5y ago
    The CDC has published estimates of fatality rate by age group. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
    - hnaccount_rng 5y ago
      That’s interesting data. Thanks for the link
- chana_masala 5y ago
  > then they would not be forcing us to go through these otherwise-draconian and insane mandates or lockdowns. Your faith in the government acting benevolently is surprising. There is the phrase "never let a good crisis go to waste"
- tinus_hn 5y ago
  So how deadly do you think COVID is?
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wrycoder 5y ago
In New Hampshire, 93% of the deaths are over 60.
microtherion 5y ago
It depends on your definition of "elderly", "health issues", and "very, very low". There were 60,000 US fatalities of people younger than 50 (1 Vietnam War's worth of US casualties, or, if you prefer, 15,000 Benghazis). Yes, for many of the dead, you can retroactively point to "health issues", but those are _extremely_ common, even among people who generally don't consider themselves "chronically ill" at all. And some of the "health issues" might come down to having a bad set of certain genes that up to now have never caused any significant issues. Finally, there are other Covid consequences than death. I personally know several people (some of them perfectly healthy people in their early 20s) dealing with fatigue/loss of taste for a year (and counting). Personally, I'm fairly confident that the risk of severe outcomes of an acute COVID-19 infection are minuscule for me, thanks to vaccination (So that's a vast improvement over a year ago), but the risks of chronic complications are not as well managed with vaccines, are not particularly closely correlated with severity of the acute infection, and are, as of yet, practically unknown for the omicron variant.

kuraudo 5y ago

That's complete nonsense. If covid wasn't as deadly as we have been reliably informed, then they would not be forcing us to go through these otherwise-draconian and insane mandates or lockdowns.

benjaminwootton 5y ago
I just spent 10 minutes Googling for a good source and surprisingly couldn’t find one. For under 65 say, the fatality rate is well under 1%. This was before vaccines and Omnicron is estimated as 70% lower. We must be well under the IFR of flu already.
- _dain_ 5y ago
  I think the person you're replying to was being sarcastic
- nradov 5y ago
  The CDC has published estimates of fatality rate by age group. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
  - hnaccount_rng 5y ago
    That’s interesting data. Thanks for the link
chana_masala 5y ago
> then they would not be forcing us to go through these otherwise-draconian and insane mandates or lockdowns. Your faith in the government acting benevolently is surprising. There is the phrase "never let a good crisis go to waste"
tinus_hn 5y ago
So how deadly do you think COVID is?

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wrycoder 5y ago

In New Hampshire, 93% of the deaths are over 60.

microtherion 5y ago

It depends on your definition of "elderly", "health issues", and "very, very low". There were 60,000 US fatalities of people younger than 50 (1 Vietnam War's worth of US casualties, or, if you prefer, 15,000 Benghazis). Yes, for many of the dead, you can retroactively point to "health issues", but those are _extremely_ common, even among people who generally don't consider themselves "chronically ill" at all. And some of the "health issues" might come down to having a bad set of certain genes that up to now have never caused any significant issues. Finally, there are other Covid consequences than death. I personally know several people (some of them perfectly healthy people in their early 20s) dealing with fatigue/loss of taste for a year (and counting). Personally, I'm fairly confident that the risk of severe outcomes of an acute COVID-19 infection are minuscule for me, thanks to vaccination (So that's a vast improvement over a year ago), but the risks of chronic complications are not as well managed with vaccines, are not particularly closely correlated with severity of the acute infection, and are, as of yet, practically unknown for the omicron variant.