drump1111

20+ percent of worldwide deaths.....6 percent of world population...

sounds very bad if you do the math....especially when the one person who could have prevented it did just the opposite.

6.5 Mil cases - 200,000 deaths
340 Mil × .10 = 34 Mil
34 Mil × .10 = 3.4 Mil
That is roughly a 2% infection rate to Population.

200,000 = 20% of 1Million. 1 Mil is 1/340th of the population of total people in the US.

1/340 = 0.00294 20% of that 0.000588

Odds of catching COVID: 0.01764:1
Odds of dying from COVID: 0.000588:1

Doesn't sound quite as bad when you look at the math.

that's because you did your math wrong. you don't cross your populations like that.

That's like comparing lung cancer deaths in smokers against the whole population of the United States. Or comparing deaths due to heart attacks in men over 60 to the entire population of the United States.

It gives you spurious numbers like yours.

Also, your "math" doesn't take into account the differences between populations. Because the risks to distinct groups are...and this make shock you...different.

So, when you make up some bullshit it doesn't sound bad at all.

But it's still 200,000 dead. Making up some math won't wish it away.

No - its not a comparison akin to smokers. Smokers choose their habit. Everyone is at stake with COVID.

Math is math - when you take the general population & do the math - it is exactly that. Its numbers. Numbers don't care if you're black or white or Republican or Democrat straight or gay or anything like that.

As of now - the infection rate is 2% of the population of the US. The death rate among those infected is roughly 3%. The odds of catching and dying from it right now are indeed 0.000588 some to 1. Its not bloody likely you will catch it or die from it.

Numbers don't lie - but idiots will try to make it seem like they do & think like you. You common houseplant.

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When you do the math wrong, it doesn't give you accurate information. You can't compare the death rate of an infected population to the whole country. You can only compare it to the infected.

Do the math right.

According to the CDC, the seasonal flu has a mortality of 0.1%. If we do the math your way, that's 340,000 people dead every year.

I think we would have noticed if over a quarter of a million people died during the flu season. Every. Year. Simple observation in the US tells us that 340,000 people a year are not dying from the flu.

So, we know that the way you're doing the math is wrong.

The CDC estimates that roughly 26,176,000 in the US are infected with influenza, and 12,000 and 61,000 deaths annually since 2010 can be blamed on the flu. But let's look at 2018/19's numbers, which happens to be 32,000 deaths related to influenza.

If we do some math, 26,176,000 x 0.1% that comes out to....26176. Hey, hey, hey, look at that. That's pretty close to what the actual number was.

When you do the math correctly- things come out right.

So,now that we know that you only compare the deaths due to a disease to the infected population, not the total population, let's re-run the covid numbers.

Let's do the old math percentage trick where we multiple the lower number 200,000 by 100 and then divide by the dominator to get our percentage total.

200,000 x 100 = 20,000,000. 20,000,000 / 6,750,000 = 3.

the death rate for covid-19 is 3%.

Influence is 0.1%.

That's an entire order of magnitude deadlier. And that's just the broad number, it doesn't drill down to demographics where things change based on your age, geographical location, and wealth.

Wear a mask when you go outside.

Wash your hands.

Stay home whenever possible.

And that is why you are stupid. Common flu is a 0.01% as in ONE percent. You have provided it has. 0.1% - which is TEN percent.

You can't take a common decimal number and understand it - but say my math is off. Like I said - you common house plant.

I also said the death rate is 3% of the infected people - which is exactly what you did - while providing horrible examples of how to read a decimal.... So you also came to the same conclusion as me - using improper math. I guess that actually makes you an advanced house plant.

You came up to the same death rate as Jason & used improper decimals to represent 1%... are you sure you're not a house plant like he says?

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Peace.