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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3615919, member: 730"] Sure. All the stats being tossed around it gets confusing. First, flu deaths are estimated. It's extremely rare for anyone to have "influenza" on the death cert as the cause. The CDC estimates the number and comparing it to an actual count of covid deaths is a mistake. 9.1 million resolved cases (total cases minus active cases equals resolved cases) divided by 600 thousand deaths equals 6.6%, which is the percentage of people who die after contracting the virus. This is lower than I said due to me saying world rather than the US. The world-wise numbers are much less acurate than the US. In the US the numbers are 3.8 million total cases and 1.9 of those are active, right about 50%. Of the 1.9 million resolved cases there have been 140 thousand deaths. 140 divided by 1.9 million gives 7.4 percent. These percents have dropped over the last few days. I think a lot more of the cases are being listed as recovered than last time I looked a few days ago. My point is that if you avoid catching the virus your survival rate is excellent (100%) but if you catch the bug you are a lot more likely to die than the 0.5% numbers I keep reading. Like many others with lots of time I have followed this disease closely since January when our leaders told us it was no worse than a bad cold and there was no need to wear masks or to test anyone. I don't trust any of the numbers. This is like war where truth is the first casualty. We were told we didn't need masks because our government never stockpiled any so there were no masks. Did anyone expect them to say they screwed up? I bought a couple of boxes of paper masks last year for my allergy attacks. 100 masks cost me about $12. Yesterday I was in a convenience store and the price of [B]one[/B] of those masks was $5.00. What a country we live in! [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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