[ExI] COVID-19 has now reached 3 Vietnam's worth of death

[Samantha Atkins]

Rather usual for a bad virus.  1958-1959 pandemic killed as many adjust for population and as quickly.   Remember this is < 0.05% of population.   Also note CFR is dropping toward 3% as we now test a lot more asymptomatic people.    IFR depends on the estimate of infections vs known cases ratio.  Whatever that is divide the CFR by it.  Last CDC estimate I saw a was down to 0.26% IFR.    Yes the virus is scary but not exactly something I would consider worth as much hysteria and draconian measures (lockdowns) as were deployed. 


> On Aug 19, 2020, at 3:45 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> 58,220 Americans died in the entire Vietnam War of all causes not just from combat, and as of right now August 19 at 09:35 GMT 175,087 Ameracans have died of COVID-19, just over 3 times as many. And this all happened since February.
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> John K Clark
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