Likewise, the entire state of NY would have to have 50 percent of the population infected to justify a .1% death rate currently.
Worldwide, 6% of positive cases have died. Now certainly the death rate isn't 6 percent, but if I am not mistaken, this number has climbed from what it was a few weeks ago, which is concerning considering testing is considerably higher than it was a few weeks ago. That concerns me.
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This was so obvious.
As previously stated, it's literally impossible for the death rate in the highest impacted city on Earth (i.e. the largest data set) to be less than .1%
An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people.
“I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that,” he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that “people are healed” in his church.
Happily announcing he was being “controversial” by being “in violation” of safety protocols — with “way more than 10 people” at the church — he vowed to keep his church open “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
“I am essential,” he said of remaining open, adding, “I’m a preacher — I talk to God!”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/virgi...dcgACzupbGvkDQxFuf4VTwostMnh5M-8p5iLRZvf-mo0k
Not disagreeing with this point. We are talking about now a difference of one or two tenths of a percent.
Death rates also vary by region for various reasons.
We still get to the same conclusion though. The virus was not nearly as deadly as anyone thought and our decisions were based on terribly wrong assumptions.
States are now in a race to open up again because it's so obvious.