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COVID Risk Factors and Susceptibility to COVID
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<blockquote data-quote="pitabread" data-source="post: 76242695" data-attributes="member: 394892"><p>A 2% case fatality rate would mean that if everyone in the U.S. contracted the virus, over 6 million people would die just from the virus alone. And that's not counting additional deaths as a result of overwhelming healthcare services.</p><p></p><p>Does that seem reasonable to you?</p><p></p><p>(Keep in mind the number of annual deaths in 2019 was ~2.8M people.)</p><p></p><p>The sad thing is if the U.S. had taken a unified aggressive approach (ala New Zealand and Australia), they could have probably avoided the majority of the deaths and associated suffering. But they didn't and things unfolded the way they did.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Essential services. People need to get food to live. Visiting a church, not so much.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't disagree it's a crappy situation for those still being in public and being exposed.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, my own local grocery store put up plexiglass screens, had workers wearing masks and face shields, and aggressively clean everything (you had to wait for cashiers as they sprayed things down between serving customers). We also have had mask mandates in place since March 2020, so every customer has to wear a mask to enter the store.</p><p></p><p>It's certainly not a perfect situation, but better than doing nothing at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pitabread, post: 76242695, member: 394892"] A 2% case fatality rate would mean that if everyone in the U.S. contracted the virus, over 6 million people would die just from the virus alone. And that's not counting additional deaths as a result of overwhelming healthcare services. Does that seem reasonable to you? (Keep in mind the number of annual deaths in 2019 was ~2.8M people.) The sad thing is if the U.S. had taken a unified aggressive approach (ala New Zealand and Australia), they could have probably avoided the majority of the deaths and associated suffering. But they didn't and things unfolded the way they did. Essential services. People need to get food to live. Visiting a church, not so much. I don't disagree it's a crappy situation for those still being in public and being exposed. FWIW, my own local grocery store put up plexiglass screens, had workers wearing masks and face shields, and aggressively clean everything (you had to wait for cashiers as they sprayed things down between serving customers). We also have had mask mandates in place since March 2020, so every customer has to wear a mask to enter the store. It's certainly not a perfect situation, but better than doing nothing at all. [/QUOTE]
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