Snowbird parks and Coronavirus

westernrvparkowner wrote:

TomG2 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
....snip.... COVID19 is responsible for about 4/1000th of 1% of the deaths in the US.

In case you haven't noticed, it just got here. That figure is about as meaningful as saying the death rate from automobiles was less than 4/1000th of 1% in 1901.

Approximately 38,800 people in the US were killed in traffic accidents in 2018. That is more than 1500 times the number of people in the US whose deaths are attributed to COVID19.

while I agree that the media has overhyped this; your comparison of 38,800 in 52 weeks is not reasonable since there has been deaths (22) in the USA to Coronavirus for just over 1 week and the first likely case of local transmission was just under 2 weeks ago. The exposure and deaths/week are not at a steady rate as is the case for automobile deaths.

It’s just getting started in the USA and we don’t really have a good sense of just how bad it will be.