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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could absolutely believe OP is real, and not a troll.

With people double masking... OUTSIDE, there are clearly a lot of people who have simply lost their grip on reality. They are beyond detached at this point. [/quote]
When Covid is mostly gone in the next few months and the rest of us are pretty much back to normal, what will all these scared people do?

Based on a recent survey I saw, Americans believe that if you catch covid, you have a 17% chance of death (in reality, it’s less than 0.5% across all demographic groups, and much lower for younger people). Which would mean 17 million dead among the 100 million or so Americans who have already had it. The media and government have done a disturbingly good job at panicking Americans.[/quote]

In attempting to demonstrate American innumeracy, you have betrayed your own.

Americans are indeed incorrect that 17% of people who contract it will die.

You are insinuating that a ~1% death rate is not something to "panic" about.

In fact, a 1% death rate is extremely high! If I told you there was a 1% chance an anvil would drop on you every time you left your house, you would never leave. Or you'd die in an average of 3+ months.

Similarly, it's good that people do not want to contract an illness with a 1% death rate. Or even half that or less for healthy adults (especially since they can spread it to more vulnerable people). It "feels" like 17% to many Americans because it feels pretty dire, which it is. The half a million deaths we have experienced are excess deaths. And that's with a ton of mitigation efforts (albeit not enough).

And then again... I don't believe every single one of these numbers is 100% accurate, but the overall concept is true. Only ~1% is VERY much not the whole story of this illness.

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If you look at number this way, then you should also take into consideration the average age/ health condition of people that die or have permanent issues. I love my grandparents a lot, but they are nit going to live much longer (Covid or nit) so killing them is the same as killing a 20 year old. The numbers you write  are wrong because for society all people are nit the same. Some contribute, some take, some are at the end, some are at the beginning...[/quote]

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