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This world is getting out of control. All of this madness for a mere 0.017% mortality rate, mostly in older people with existing conditions.

Give me my life back

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Is this a troll? Surely a ton of people must a debunked those weak arguments to you by now. Be a lockdown skeptic, fine, but surely you can come up with something smarter than that?

Relax, the submission is a troll.

Why is it a weak argument? As a college student you are about 10 times more likely to die in a car accident. Are they forbidding their students from being in a car?

Of course the risk to the college student is low (although I call bullshit on your 10 times because you probably made that up). Catching the virus does not merely concern yourself; you spread it around everywhere you go if you’re infected. Surely, again as OP, you heard that a thousand time, so why are you ignoring it? I say that as someone who opposes what’s being done to student in the article here.

480k/320M Americans gives a 0.15% mortality rate, and that’s incorrectly including tens or hundreds of millions who haven’t gotten it yet and thus don’t count in CFR/IFR.

Even by the most charitable treatment of your claim it’s off by a factor of 10.

Not for college age students. Which I assume was the ops point. In fact the op may be off by a factor of 10 in the other direction

The mortality rate is roughly 1.7%. You took the result of dividing deaths by cases and added a percent sign instead of multiplying by 100 to get an actual percentage.

That number is actually 0.017 people die for every one person that gets it.

Really not sure why you’re being downvoted, 1.7% is the correct number per Johns Hopkins https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Also if op was trying to cherry pick lower numbers for certain populations that’s silly, like somehow during your college years you never interact with anyone older than 22. Also there’s many more negative outcomes to consider besides simply mortality rate.

IDFK... HN just likes to be weird sometimes. I don't think anyone actually read my entire comment about the obvious math error and just assumed I was siding with them?

With current numbers, 0.017 is not a percentage as someone correctly posted below, 1.7% is correct.

But who's to say there aren't actually 10x more cases than reported?

In any case I still find the numbers ridiculously low and not worthy of the hysteria.

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