"lack of test subjects"???kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 9:53 pmThese aren’t claims.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 8:16 pmkramerica.inc wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 7:52 pm We aren’t selfish. And we were told it’s so transmittable that everyone probably has it. And there’s nothing to do about it anyway.
Wrong. We were told it was more transmittable than the flu, but not to the point where everyone has it. Even the best numbers for NYC have fewer than a quarter of the population infected. Most of the rest of the country - a few percent to around 5 percent.
So Assume you have it, self quarantine and join the 99.95% that end up being fine.
Absolutely a dangerous thing to do. And the death rate alone is likely to end up between a half percent and one percent. Plus a lot more complications healthwise than the flu.
You have a better chance of dying in a car accident than you do of covid.
This is your most laughable claim. Chance of dying IF you get in a car accident are higher, but the chance of getting in an accident makes that one way lower in terms of death rate. (A 1% car accident death rate for the American population would mean around 3.2 million people per year...
My post was referring to the article about lack of test subjects. This is what the public has been told by the talking heads on tv for the past 2+ mos and what we’re seeing in practice locally.
My point is - we take risks in everything we do. We will ultimately accept the unlikely risk of catching covid and dying like we do for many things in life. You have a likely chance of getting into a car accident and dying in your everyday travels as you do catching covid and dying. It can surely happen, but probably won’t, and you can always take plenty of precautions to improve your personal odds.
I must have missed that reference and topic.
do you mean that in some areas they have tests ready and waiting for all residents of that area?
or is this in reference to they have enough tests for all those presenting with symptoms...and expanded to all medical workers and first responders? or expanded further?
That's certainly not been the case until recently in any area with hot spots. Nope, even with symptoms it's been difficult to get a test scheduled.
That's getting better, but certainly not remotely the kind of broadly available testing necessary to assure an employer that everyone they're letting in their door has been tested and is virus-free. Same for retailers or other service providers, much less restaurants.
re car deaths, there are less than 6 million accidents per year reported. Less than 40K deaths annually. Get in an accident and you have a chance of dying about 1.7%. But chance of an accident? Tiny. Risk of contracting Covid? Extremely high without distancing etc or vaccine.
Which is why 90k deaths in less than 3 months versus less than 40k deaths full year.
And that's with many of us not metaphorically 'getting in the car' these past 3 months.
Otherwise, that death toll would be much higher still.