And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
Forum Discussion
way2roll wrote:Then why did you post the percentage as if it mattered? The point is that if you consider the total number of people infected, not the number tested positive, but the total number of people infected, then the fatality rate starts to approach that of the flu.tommyznr wrote:ford truck guy wrote:fj12ryder wrote:ford truck guy wrote:Honestly you need to quit posting percentages as they are meaningless unless you can quote the number of infected. Actual numbers of infected, not the numbers tested.
From Johns Hopkins -
NY:
city - 76,876 cases - 4009 deaths
Long Island - 16,610 cases - 500 deaths
West Chester - 14,804 cases- 283 deaths
Totals for NY - 93,760 confirmed - 4792 deaths... 5%
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It is not that you are posting the numbers, it is that the numbers are very limited in usefulness. The number of confirmed cases is essentially an arbitrary number which makes the 5% mortality rate useless.
Who cares about the rate? As of yesterday 13,000 of your fellow Americans are dead. The numbers keep climbing.
And no one seems to get terribly upset with 50,000 dead from the flu. Why is that?
