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> 0.27% Imagine if we could take that number back in time.

by mwint 4y ago

cdelsolar 4y ago
That’s 20 million people if everyone gets it
HWR_14 4y ago
Back to when? This was first published October 2020. And it was based on pre-Delta/Omicron wave numbers so the amount of time this was valid was pretty low. But that's also a huge number. That's 1 in 400 people.
arinlen 4y ago
> Imagine if we could take that number back in time. What would you differently if a couple of years ago you knew that the public health precautions put in place followed a couple of miracle vaccines that appeared out of the blue led to an inferred death rate of 0.27%? Would you press harder for vaccination and to follow basic higiene and health precautions such as wearing a mask?
- mwint 4y ago
  Vaccines came out after this study.
codefreeordie 4y ago
according to the study, that is "corrected to 0.23%", and once you exclude locations with exceptionally poor medical care, you get a value below 0.2%. In other words, we locked down the world and destroyed our free society for influenza-with-a-different-name. Just like the folks who were unpersoned in 2020 said we were. Seems like yet again, the difference between "conspiracy theory" and "the truth" is "about 18 months"
- bandushrew 4y ago
  That matches what we were being told 18 months ago though. As I understood it, the problem was with the number of people being infected, because of the lack of any existing immunity. Ie, most of the population has some degree of immunity to the flu, so it kills people in much lower numbers each year. COVID was going to…and did…infect large numbers all at once which would wreak havoc on the health systems of countries and cause the death rate of all caused to skyrocket.
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    > That matches what we were being told 18 months ago though. It should. This study only covers data from Jan-Sept. 9th, 2020. It was written then. It does not, for instance, cover any errors in recorded deaths since then.
- seadan83 4y ago

> 0.27% Imagine if we could take that number back in time.

by mwint 4y ago

> 0.27% Imagine if we could take that number back in time.

cdelsolar 4y ago

That’s 20 million people if everyone gets it

HWR_14 4y ago

Back to when? This was first published October 2020. And it was based on pre-Delta/Omicron wave numbers so the amount of time this was valid was pretty low. But that's also a huge number. That's 1 in 400 people.

arinlen 4y ago

> Imagine if we could take that number back in time. What would you differently if a couple of years ago you knew that the public health precautions put in place followed a couple of miracle vaccines that appeared out of the blue led to an inferred death rate of 0.27%? Would you press harder for vaccination and to follow basic higiene and health precautions such as wearing a mask?

mwint 4y ago
Vaccines came out after this study.

codefreeordie 4y ago

according to the study, that is "corrected to 0.23%", and once you exclude locations with exceptionally poor medical care, you get a value below 0.2%. In other words, we locked down the world and destroyed our free society for influenza-with-a-different-name. Just like the folks who were unpersoned in 2020 said we were. Seems like yet again, the difference between "conspiracy theory" and "the truth" is "about 18 months"

bandushrew 4y ago
That matches what we were being told 18 months ago though. As I understood it, the problem was with the number of people being infected, because of the lack of any existing immunity. Ie, most of the population has some degree of immunity to the flu, so it kills people in much lower numbers each year. COVID was going to…and did…infect large numbers all at once which would wreak havoc on the health systems of countries and cause the death rate of all caused to skyrocket.
- HWR_14 4y ago
  > That matches what we were being told 18 months ago though. It should. This study only covers data from Jan-Sept. 9th, 2020. It was written then. It does not, for instance, cover any errors in recorded deaths since then.
seadan83 4y ago