Sir Spot of Borg
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aquascoot wrote on May 2 nd, 2020 at 6:09am: UnSubRocky wrote on May 1 st, 2020 at 10:21pm: Sprintcyclist wrote on May 1 st, 2020 at 7:27pm: UnSubRocky wrote on May 1 st, 2020 at 5:18pm: Sprintcyclist wrote on May 1 st, 2020 at 4:27pm: Your maths is off. There are 3,308,901 cases of coronavirus, as of this writing. 234,139 people have died so far. That is roughly 7% of people who have had the virus have died. 1,042,995 people have recovered. 1,277,134 people have either recovered or died from the virus. That is 38.6% of people who have had one conclusive stage of the virus or the other. 61% of people who have had the virus are still infected. Those were not my calculations, but I agree with them. To round the figures off, there are 3 million cases of this virus. 1 million have been resolved, one way or another. 2 million people still have an active case of it. I do not know what will happen to the 2 million active cases. Of the 1 million resolved cases, 200K have died. About 20%. You don't do percentages based on a percentage of a percentage. You do a total count. And then you do a percentage of recovered and/or deceased numbers compared to a total. What if all of those still infected make a recovery? Would that bump those percentage dead down to 5%? I bet many of those that died come from countries where the health care system is busted, or for those that can afford it. Australia has had 93 dead out of 6,767 cases. 1.3% death rate. That is, if you assume that there are only 6,767 cases of coronavirus in this country. thats a truly terrible number. we have been so scared that we have only had that many infections amd so we have about 26 , 993,000 cases to go (assuming we have a pop of 27 million). if we dont get a vaccine and we dont get treatment (which we may well not get) then at this rate we have 1000's of years to go . rediculous. the idea was to flatten the curve. sweden has NOT been overwhelemed and has a steady flow of patients which it can cope with and a much better economy. we are back to the start. when we ease WHICH WE MUST, we have made zero progress and all the pain is still in front of us. talk about dumb . unless you think its gone forever, never to return  . the only way it could be gone not to return is not to allow travel ever again Spot
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