re: Some Math for the Karens and Kevins on why this is LESS deadly than flu

Amen. Putting forth these arguments only paints the "open it up" position in bad light. The data is pretty clear that the virus is not to be taken lightly. However, a complete shut down without any effort on economic maintenance is a complete overreaction. There must be mitigation efforts but there has to be some critical level thinking on how we can best mitigate while avoiding a total economic collapse. It's not all or or nothing.

i just find it telling that the new york times of all outlets ran that story of 3700 people dead that did not get tested but were lumped into the death toll. if so how many other places have similar numbers

Deaths are the only thing being confirmed... in fact they are over compensating for it.

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Simple minded people will have you believe the death rate is 5.5%.

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Death rate is 100% for 46,379. Prayers to their family and friends during this time. Only a couple of months into this pandemic. Don't let your guard down.

FYI...I'm not a shut-it-down person. I'm at work right now with 350+ people. We've been nonstop from the beginning. So far, using CDC guidelines and common sense, we are coronavirus-less throughout the building. Open up the economy!

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Deaths are the only thing being confirmed... in fact they are over compensating for it.

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you don't even understand why your own math is wrong

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I think he's saying that 40 million is the estimate of people being infected so far. Given that many people have gotten it and shown no symptoms or haven't gotten tested, I don't think that's an out of bounds number.

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if we are going by the antibody studies, its like 3-4x higher than the amount being projected

so yes, its an "out of bounds number" by any estimation

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Were they not tested before their death or were they never tested at all, even after death? Because there's a significant difference there.

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They weren't tested before/after but had symptoms. I don't think it's bad math to include those (reasonably accurate based on the number of "excess" deaths there were in NYC, and every other cause of death has that same fudging).

But, since the death total is used in public as arguments to do/not do something, it honestly would have been best to exclude those for now. It's better to argue using data that's closer to irrefutable. Adding in presumptives or estimates now just clouds things - even if is scientifically reasonable.

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330,000,000 x .12 = 39,600,000 that would likely test positive if all Americans were tested

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What the frick?

Didn’t you say you were in healthcare? This is just embarrassing for you.

Do you realize the people tested were tested because they had symptoms and we suspected of having the disease. You can’t just extrapolate that number onto the general population

you have just exposed yourself and your agenda

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Its not wrong at all. They are literally adding people like that nurse that dropped dead in her apartment but was positive for Covid -19

If people die the first thing they will do is check for Covid. Its not being missed. We don’t have testing available to check asymptotic patients which make up the majority.

I’m sorry my math is too complicated for the simple citizens of Louisiana. Thankfully I was educated out of state away from this shite education system

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thanks for proving my point