My state was about 1.1% the country is about 2.9% What is your hang up? I don't follow. If I did the math wrong, the way you did it, I would have come up with 0.011...% Since Valentine's day last year nowhere in the country has seen mortality under 1%. Many people claiming a lower mortality rate are dividing deaths by total population of a given area, this is not how you find such a number, total population is valid for infection rates but mortality rate requires deaths be divided by the subset of the effected population. If 300k die from heart disease every year you would wouldn't divide that by total US population you would divide it by the number of people with heart disease if you wanted to find out how deadly heart disease is, if tou were trying to tell a young person how likely they might be to die of heart disease you would need to first see how common heart disease is in the given population and then see how fatal it is and average the rate of heart disease with the rate of mortality for heart disease, even then that's a sloppy way of doing it but there are probably a dozen other factors for heart disease so making an estimate for a random person accurately would require a day at a doctor's office, simple calculations are how we alert the public of such a public health risk. But a virus can be done easily if you know percentage mortality rate(deaths divided by infections) and the rate of infection(R0). If covid has an R0 of 5 which is un-molested by any form of mitigation and a mortality rate of 2.9% the lifetime likelihood of an american citizen dying from covid would be 3.9%, which is pretty close to its mortality among seniors, but that R0 is mitigated by hand washing, infectious spread creating immunity and probably public awareness not to go out or visit the elderly when sick, it would take a big study to see how much that mitigates the R0 but factor that in and you get a much lower mortality lifetime probability of mortality. Most of voat, much of poal, and the right in general have proven they are terrible at word problems and percentages with this pandemic, I would love to play cards or liars dice with just about anybody spouting this nonsense. I'll repeat the formula for mortality (Deaths/infections)100 Inside the parentheses you will have a decimal, to get the "cent" into percentage you must multiply that decimal by 100.