Originally Posted by
atpcliff
The current death rate due to the Cvirus in the US (26Apr2020) is 0.32.
Based on the US flu death rate of 0.1, and the average number of flu deaths per year (over the past 9 years, of 37,400), we should expect about 120,000 US deaths in this 12 month cycle.
The Swedish death rate as of 26Apr is now at 0.69. If we had the same rate as Sweden, we would expect about 260,000 US deaths in the 12 month period.
We had about 50,000 Americans die in combat during the Vietnam War, which lasted about 30 years. We have had 55,415 Cvirus deaths to date, so we are already over the Vietnam War casualty number...in a few months...
There is no need to assign numbers, that is what a percentage is for, to ‘see the big picture’. And looking at a pie chart, you don’t make decisions that can wreck the entire pie, when the tiniest sliver had a problem.
I’m not saying screw them, kill them...we need to protect them with everything we can do, short of wrecking the whole pie (but we decided the “wreck the whole pie” route), because then, no one can’t eat any of it, as opposed to just that sliver being tossed out and the rest saved.
Especially when this most in this sliver is going to die anyway in a few years. If I was in this sliver, I would beg of you to not ruin this great country to potentially extend my life 5-20 years more.