Originally Posted by
ACEssXfer
According to the CDC it JUST BARELY meets the threshold for an epidemic....
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...iew/index.html
(See graph at bottom)
In another CDC document their "most likely scenario" moving forward is .0065 infection mortality rates.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...s.html#table-1
We should certainly be wearing a mask, washing hands, etc, etc but lets stop the outright lunacy that this thing is going to kill everyone. I, and millions of other are going to lose thier jobs, houses, wives, mental health you name it due to this thing being overhyped by exponential factors.
yup just read this straight from the CDC website yesterday too. Also remember that every time someone takes a test and its positive it goes towards the total new case count even when its the same person. So think about that for a second because when someone test positive they are likely going to get multiple test ever few days and have multiple positives, so that doesn't help the panic factor at all. Just to be clear I believe its real, we should wear masks because its highly contagious, but at a IFR of 0.0065 can we just move on with most of our normal lives already?! The data is what it is now with 3.5m cases or whatever it is we know what this thing does...I mean how big a sample size do they need?