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Originally Posted by Ghostvette
You are looking at the wrong numbers. You are comparing deaths with known cases, that will always give an inaccurate number. Even the 'experts' are saying they don't know how many have had this and had either no symptoms/mild symptoms and recovered quickly. Until there is an anti-body test developed, saying that the CCP virus will kill 2-4% of those it infects is ludicrous.
Let's throw some things out, just for chits & giggles.
Average age of person that dies from CCP virus: 75
Average age of people at death during normal times: 75
What can be deduced from those statements? In reality, not a damn thing. People die when the body and spirit gives up, nothing is going to change that. We don't suspend life because people die. I didn't quit living when I lost my grandparents and I'm not going to quit living when my parents pass. If I did that, my dad when come back from the dead and kick my azz.... guaranteed. 
I'm not a hard-hearted bastard, (regardless of what others may say)... all I'm saying is that we have allowed a bunch of people that claim to be experts wipe out our lives for no real good reason. I was raised that when you were sick, you stayed home until you were better. You didn't go dragging your sick azz all over the countryside, you didn't drag your sick kids all over creation to cough and sneeze all over everything, you stayed your azz home. How is this different? I'm not sick, I'm not staying home. PERIOD. |
First off, you ARE a hare-hearted bastard. And we love you for it! ;-)
Same numbers difficulty can be made with the flu - you don't REALLY know how many flu cases there are in the US every year. Betting upwards of 80% go unreported because they are relatively mild, They are in part relatively mild because we have vaccines and our immune systems have seen influenza virus before (even if not the particular strain), so your body already has a blueprint for dealing with most cases. In other words, the statistics are VERY MUCH comparable between the two illnesses.
Now, look at absolute numbers. Influenza (flu) kills about 650,000 people around the world annually. This thing has only been known for 5 months, and only started spreading around the globe in seriousness about 3 months ago. It has already claimed 152,000 people, and Russia and India really haven't reported in at all yet. Even without those, the daily death toll is still accelerating. It is on track to kill at least as many people as influenza this year. I'll wager the toll, even with shelter in place rules, is over 1,000,000, and without that it will be many times that.
No question that the economy is in dire straights. But it isn't just the US economy or Canada's. It is everywhere. And all one has to do is ride this out to get back to a relative normal. Otherwise, a lot of people who are perfectly healthy now are going to die. If 75 is your limit, why not just line everyone up at 74 and 364 days and shoot them? I don't know if that average is correct, but there certainly are young victims of this as well. Including doctors who are just doing their jobs and didn't sign up for this either!
As far as infrastructure is concerned, if everybody who runs the power grid in your region comes down with this, you are no better off.
Right now, governments will simply print money to solve the issue, and since everyone is doing the same, it has little impact on the value of the currency. When quantitative easing is reversed, and by how much, is what will determine that.
I agree, if you are sick, stay home. Problems with that in this case are two-fold.
First, you don't know that you are sick for up to 2 weeks (there is some indication that it could be even longer), yet you can already be infecting others by 2 - 5 days after you were exposed.
Second, this is not a cold. It is a deadly disease that humans are not immune to.