Disagree. The clincher is the word "all." Many of the oldest and most vulnerable will die earlier because of the virus. Many people die of stupidity. But neither the virus nor stupidity will kill all.
Social distancing will save you. Stay at least 12 feet apart and don't touch any objects with bare hands and don't touch your face and wash your hands! Don't go to work please!
It will take more than a virus, no matter how potent, to kill off the entire human race. We would need an event much like the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
Less than 2% kill ratio, and that's just of those who present with symptoms. Given that at least half of those exposed are asymptomatic and therefore don't get tested, it makes this pandemic a fizzer. Yes, it can kill - less frequently than the flu does. The Black Death (Bubonic plague) had a better than 50% kill ratio, it didn't manage to kill us off entirely.
Stupidity, on the other hand, has that capability. If His Royal Orangeness decides that nuclear weapons sound like fun, cockroaches and Keith Richards will be all that survives.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at March 22, 2020 10:25 AM MDT
Two-thirds is still not all. This is survival of the fittest. I believe this is nature's way of culling the population of the earth so we don't all starve. Modern medicine has people living longer and that means less sustainability.
Is that a 3.4 kill ratio based on how many people co tract it, or is it based on overall (worldwide) population? Either way, I’d like to know where you drummed up 3.4, because it seems way too high and therefore inaccurate.
Numbers are hard to get an accurate assessment. No one is testing everybody.
China had 81,000 cases. 3200 deaths, 72,000 recovered, 5300 active cases and of those 1800 crititcal....so that is roughly 4% death rate. 6% if you assume the critical cases die.
Italy is worse than that. More deaths with less cases.
We are not near those numbers. On death rate. We have the cases but do not have the deaths.
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