And that's ll I'm going to say. This thread is meant to announce, honor and remember the big names who have passed. It's not for political arguments. Now I'm sorry I brought up how deadly COVID is, but I will say no more about it. The discussion is closed.
Statistically, it's not deadly, and is becoming less deadly as time goes on, on average, approaching a less than 1% mortality, and that will be halved in another month. By far and away, deaths from covid are statistically within the margin of error, even with inflated rates.
If you get the corona virus, unless you have underlying illnesses, you are
likely going to survive, and may not even know you contracted it. Even where the illness is dire, in elderly with underlying factors, the likelihood is that you will still survive, by a large margin.
Your ire is misplaced. On the personal level, this bug can be a terrible tragedy, and there is no one I know that would deny it. But statistics are about the aggregate, and without the emotional involvement. And statistically, this bug is a little worse than the flu.
And I might add, I can make the argument that most of its mortality was caused by its lingering, and its lingering, caused by the lock-down. Left to it's own devices, letting herd immunity occur in its natural course, the death toll would have been less.
