[ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19

[Dylan Distasio]

Very few people are going to die outside of at risk groups.   If you
believe the CDC estimated CFRs, there is no reason to shut down entire
economies:

2
2332.5 Symptomatic Case Fatality Ratio, stratified by age in years
Source: Preliminary COVID-19 estimates, CDC



0-49: 0.0005



50-64: 0.002



65+: 0.013



Overall: 0.004




On Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:22 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:03 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>  the citizens who are not politicians are increasingly deciding their
>> lives must go on.
>>
>
> Yes, well, that's the problem.  If the reports are correct, then reopening
> business as usual will mean that, for a large number of people, life won't
> go on.
>
>
>> Government influences us, but does not control us.
>>
>>
> How about common sense and a desire to continue living?  It's not the
> government that's causing danger to lives here.
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