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Disclaimer: I do not wish people to suffer from coronavirus or die from it, but at least, the same people who are the most vulnerable have the least to lose.

Let's assume that someone dies at age 91 from coronavirus instead of 94 due to heart failure, missing out on around three years.

What exactly do they miss out on?

Three years of misery, pain, disability and dependence.
Think about it: How is daily life at that age? Not so nice, to put it politely.

Again, I do not wish anyone to die from coronavirus, but maybe it helps some people to know that the elderly people who died from corona virus have not lost much.

If some 16-year-old teen dies from a motorbike accident, he has lost alot. But not the 9X year old who died a few years of misery earlier.

**Disclaimer:** I do **not** wish people to suffer from coronavirus or die from it, but at least, the same people who are the most vulnerable **have the least to lose.** Let's assume that someone dies at age 91 from coronavirus instead of 94 due to heart failure, missing out on around three years. **What exactly** do they miss out on? Three years of misery, pain, disability and dependence. Think about it: How is daily life at that age? Not so nice, to put it politely. ---- Again, I do **not** wish anyone to die from coronavirus, but maybe it helps some people to know that the elderly people who died from corona virus have not lost much. If some 16-year-old teen dies from a motorbike accident, he has lost **alot.** But not the 9X year old who died a few years of misery earlier.

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>If there’s more people sick than tested for, the death rate will be lower.

No, this assumption makes no case of reality

You can have people dying from pneumonia for instance, without being identified as in fact dying of pneumonia induced by corona

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/infected-coronavirus-200210205212755.html

>"You have mild cases, which look like the common cold, which have some respiratory symptoms, sore throat, runny nose, fever, all the way through pneumonia. And there can be varying levels of severity of pneumonia all the way through multi-organ failure and death," she told reporters in Geneva on February 7.

And the current mortality rate is anything but scary

2 fucking percent, the joke

It's the infection rate that is actually, worrying...