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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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[–] • 1 pt (edited )

>more people have died from influenza than coronavirus this year alone JUST IN THE UNITED STATES

You can't count for shit just shut up you moron

It's over 2,000,000 dead that you'll get with corona with a death rate at 2% for 40% of the US pop infected

Influenza killed 80,000 people in the US for 2018, and that was the absolute worst year ever since 2010

Even if you got that for 10 years the total wouldn't even be half of what corona is projected to achieve you dung

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/482794-officials-say-the-cdc-is-preparing-for

>Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told The Wall Street Journal that "it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40 to 70 percent of the world's population likely to be infected this year.

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These numbers are dependent on numbers tested. If you don't get sick enough to seek medical care, you won't get tested and won't count in those numbers. This is the one variable being ignored.

Don't believe the current mortality rate, it is horribly skewed because it is based off people who have been tested positive 2 times.

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Well then chances are numbers are much higher then regarding infection

And the overall rate of death likely remains unchanged

It's 2% death in a "normal" setting on average

Dead people are dead people, they aren't tested twice

https://epidemic-stats.com/

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If there’s more people sick than tested for, the death rate will be lower. If 100 people are confirmed to be sick with the flu, and 3 of them die, that’s 3% mortality. But if 1000 have the flu (100 confirmed and 900 unconfirmed) the mortality rate becomes 0.3%.

The current mortality rate sounds scary and horrible, but it is a nearly useless number because we don’t know how many are actually sick. We only know how many are tested and confirmed to have it and how many of those died.