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Re: Coronavirus
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics ....
Of course we shouldn’t be panicking and clearing supermarket shelves. But we should be taking the requested precautions to prevent the spread of an infectious virus for which there is neither vaccine nor cure. If it spreads unchecked, a mortality rate of just 2% would eventually kill more than 100 million people worldwide.
Infection and mortality is low so far precisely because of quarantine procedures. Without them, that article’s rather crass comparisons with absolute rates of cancer, diabetes and heart disease deaths would be looking like a very poor joke.
Although the funniest* part of that article is how it offers as reassurance the fact that most people who die of Covid are over 50. I’m guessing “89.7 Bay FM” mostly appeals to kids and millennials.
*Not really funny at all
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