On Being Halfway

[Latrinsorm]

No one’s reading your off meds giant walls of text though.

that's... not what i asked?

[Methais]

that's... not what i asked?

It is now!

[Fortybox]

NYC had a 2 in 1000 death rate with 20% of the population infected per seroprevalence, a ratio reflected all around the world. if we only hit 1 in 1000 death rate (which as i said is about where we'll end up) why would we think anywhere near a majority would have had exposure?

i assumed everybody was already on board with fighting TB due to our spending billions of dollars on it over the past thirty some odd years without any controversy, same deal with AIDS. are there people who aren't? you send 'em my way, friend. by comparison, there is PLENTY of controversy over the details of and fight against coronavirus (see above!), so that education is what i've been focusing on recently

in the end it's not so much "virtue" signaling as "basic arithmetic" signaling. if we ignored this virus and it had 0.1% mortality, there would be 7.5MM dead in a year. since it actually has 1% mortality, there would be 75MM dead...

...and since it turns out people can get reinfected every three months or so, we'd be looking at a nine figure yearly death toll

that the overwhelming majority have taken steps to prevent that catastrophic death total and been successful is reason to praise, not criticize

We don't know the full ratio yet. That's my point. Lots of people have this and have no symptoms. You're overreacting.

[Parkbandit]

You're overreacting.

[Latrinsorm]

We don't know the full ratio yet. That's my point. Lots of people have this and have no symptoms. You're overreacting.

which is why we use seroprevalence studies, which identify people who were infected even if they had no symptoms

nyc had 20% infected and .2% deaths, that's 1% mortality

france had 4% infected and .04% deaths, that's 1% mortality

indiana had 2.8% infected and .024% deaths, that's 1% mortality

i can't speak to what you know, but the full ratio is in point of fact known by whoever wants to know it, and has been since May when these studies were published