Fatality rate is currently sitting at 3% in the US and has been holding pretty steady give or take a percent. The virus is not yet contained so it's fair to say 2% considering that was the fatality rate was a week or two ago.
And I doubt everyone is doing a daily calculation of the fatality rate. It went up because, naturally it takes two weeks for the virus to manifest for symptomatic people and those who are most vulnerable tend to die a few weeks after that.
True, as of now, only 0.057% of people in the US have died. Yet... a month ago, it was 0.045%. A month before that it was 0.038%. 0.032% before that, 0.018% before that...
Plus I think the point was that people are actually more likely to die from Covid than get robbed and yet no one has a problem owning a gun to prevent that but people have a problem with wearing a mask.
This is not true, of course. Approximately 0.12% of Americans suffer from robbery every year. But we won't know the full tally of annual Covid deaths until this year is over. If these increased projections remain constant, the highest percentage of people dead from Covid will be 0.095%. Not even close to 0.12%.
So, yes. It is not a very good argument according to the numbers.
(Apologies for the multiple replies. There was an error in my math. And I had to reverse my position based on the numbers. Not only that but I actually had the differences of the projections left over in the explanation. Oops!)
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