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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
Anyone who sell this as "just like the flu" is trying to blow smoke up your ass to protect their bottom line. Even with those ridiculously low CV19 numbers (you can't categorize someone who never got tested), that's a 5% mortality rate compared to .01% with the flu. As you get about 50 years of age, that mortality rate climbs steeply to three times that of those in their 40's, with those in the 70's dying at 8% and everyone 80+, 14.8%.
The fact that nobody under 9 has died likely points to a cytokine storm caused by previous interactions with other corona viruses.
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I have no doubt this has the potential to be devastatingly tough on the elderly. The reason the elderly can reach such an age is largely based on them living during a —pandemic free— time in history......and access to fantastic medicine and health care.
However, keeping things in perspective regarding daily deaths, currently, coronavirus is mostly media driven hype mixed with the public’s overreaction.
Floatingslowly could be 100% correct about what’s to come......time will tell!
