Didn't a study show that the death rate is a magnitude lower than previously thought? Something like 0,6% IIRC.
Also, OK let's call it 0.6%. Only just over a million deaths in the US alone then, even before health systems overwhelmed.
Still a non-starter in my book.
It seems once this takes a hold in an area that it really gets a lot of people. Me and my wife also had lung congestion, cough and brief fever but will never know if we had it until widespread antibody testing occurs. But it seems very likely there are many more cases than reported and 10x could be possible.
Tipping the scales back the other way - the official deaths only include people dying in hospital, so the true death numbers will be a lot higher, especially places with overloaded hospitals.
There's a study in italy where they think real deaths are double the official count.
> However, journalists and scholars have crunched their own numbers. L’Eco di Bergamo, a newspaper, has obtained data from 82 localities in Italy’s Bergamo province. In March these places had 2,420 more deaths than in March 2019. Just 1,140, less than half of the increase, were attributed to covid-19. “The data is the tip of the iceberg,” Giorgio Gori, the mayor of Bergamo’s capital, told L’Eco. “Too many victims are not included in the reports because they die at home.”
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/03/covid-19...
Paywall walkaround - https://outline.com/pUGx8d
Nothing should be a non-starter without an examination of the other side of the balance.
Global financial collapse -- not recession, collapse, will kill millions as well.
Pure eradication is a pipe dream and potentially the most ascientific strategy.