It's clear that I have no compassion. I'm a grandma killing monster for even daring to realize that things are nowhere near as bad as what the media continues to force upon people on a daily basis.
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Kevin_W
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Right - they changed their numbers as they got more data. What's controversial about this? The 3.4% death rate at the beginning was before they were aware of how widespread the disease was due to low or asymptomatic cases.So based on current estimates from WHO, 10 percent of the worlds population has been infected.
If that estimate is correct, 10 percent of the world population is 750 million probably more give it take.
Approximately 1,000,000 have died worldwide from Covid.
1,000,000 of 750 million cases= 0.13 percent death rate
this is in stark contrast to WHOs estimate of 3.4 percent at the beginning of the pandemic:
A positive among negatives (no pun intended). It may not look like it but progress is being made. Keep wearing the masks people!
SamusAranX
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I wasn't saying its controversial; I am saying things have improved from what we initially feared could be the worst.
Slpy3270
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A million deaths must be a statistic to you.
oceanbreeze77
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interesting.
oceanbreeze77
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we are not out of the woods yet.
SamusAranX
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So you would rather 3.4 percent died instead? I never said it was just a statistic, I said I am glad that initial predictions thankfully were not turning out as grim!
Geez. Smh
and for the last time, I have made it clear that regardless of how much progress we make, we should STILL TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO HELP MITIGATE UNTIL A VACCINE ARRIVES.
oceanbreeze77
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I think the point is that it SHOULD be much lower, but maybe we should not get into that or we will all end up in the same argument we end up in every week.
SamusAranX
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yes, let’s please avoid that. I am agreed there. Some will not change their minds.
GoofGoof
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I don’t know where all the stuff about seasonal allergies, OSHA and wearing a mask in your car is coming from so I won‘t address that. The specific comment I had replied to said FL had gambled and was winning. As far as I know the survival rate in FL is no better than anywhere else so I’m not sure how survival rate is relevant to that discussion. Businesses in FL are still suffering greatly. WDW is a shadow of its former self. I hardly call that winning. It‘s staying afloat and hoping to ride this out at best.
If 1% of the people who visited the Magic Kingdom every year didn't survive, or even 1% of the people that got a sunburn at Magic Kingdom every year didn't survive, people would stop going pretty quickly.
Huge numbers when combined with even very small percentages are a bad combination. If it was 99.99% survival rate, I would feel much better.
JoeCamel
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You should know I purchase auto, home and health insurance as do most people, I never expect those to pay me back the premiums, the insurance companies have run the numbers and they set the premium amount. Not in my favor but I digress, the reason I buy insurance is not for the 99% of the time I don't need it but the 1% of the time I do. Lousy odds of getting my money back but like most people I understand the 1% needs to be planned for and protected against.
This is awful.
First you take out people over 70 to make you numbers more amenable to you. So, you're discounting the lives of human beings over 70.
Then you think 99% survival is a somehow a good or OK rate.
Think about walking into a supermarket with about a hundred people in it. You have COVID, and by going into the market without your mask, you spread COVID to some people and it continues to spread to the rest. Eventually, over a few days of the same people going in and out, everyone in the market gets COVID.
One of them will die.
Because of you.
Happy about that 99% rate still? Or would you hope they're old so they don't count?
This is the message that needs to be repeated every day. Thank you for explaining it so clearly and succinctly.
Tuesday's Tri-State's Worst Places in the U.S. List Update:
www.nj.com
N.J. coronavirus travel advisory adds 1 state. Quarantine list back to 35 states and territories.
As New Jersey continues to deal with a surge in new COVID-19 cases, the list of states and territories that require a 14-day quarantine when travelers arrive increased Tuesday.
www.nj.com
Patcheslee
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I've found 1 tiny/slightly positive to the current Disney and covid situation. If Disney cruises were still sailing these past couple of months there may have been quite a few changed or cancelled with the cluster of hurricanes we've seen in the Gulf. As much as it sucks there is more notice now of Disney vacation plans needing to change for hotels or park issues than a cruise would be able to give because of weather.
GimpYancIent
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Ok, Who wants to go to NJ? Maybe pass through on the way to NY.Tuesday's Tri-State's Worst Places in the U.S. List Update:
N.J. coronavirus travel advisory adds 1 state. Quarantine list back to 35 states and territories.
As New Jersey continues to deal with a surge in new COVID-19 cases, the list of states and territories that require a 14-day quarantine when travelers arrive increased Tuesday.
Disney Analyst
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Anyone care to do the math for me? Just trying to see per Capita how we compare to Florida in BC.
Florida Covid Deaths 14,766 / 21.48 million people
BC Covid Deaths 242 / 5.1 million people
Florida Covid Deaths 14,766 / 21.48 million people
BC Covid Deaths 242 / 5.1 million people
BC > FL
JoeCamel
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Old people, Florida's bread and butter for years. Its not all about tourism but mostly.
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