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This is a drill

Well, an unintentional drill, but just as useful.

As much as I believe there has been a major over-reaction about the coronavirus, (considering it's relative low fatality rate of around 2% and 4% and the fact that reportedly most cases are "mild"), the fact is that this whole thing has being perfect to test what measures work and don't work on the global and national levels. If COVID-19 had the original fatality rate it was feared (between 15% and 35%, considering the fatality rates of COVID-19's "first cousins", SARS and MERS) then things by now would have been [i]really[/i] bleak. I'm sure that lessons are being learned and I hope that by the time a truly serious pandemic happens, governments will have effective contingency plans in place, having learned from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic...
4meAndyou · F
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/many-people-left-were-born-083025143.html

Using the graph in the first link, and the population figures in the second link, which are two years out of date, we can extrapolate some idea of the deaths which MIGHT occur, if all of these people are exposed and if the mortality graph is correct.

I ran the figures JUST for the population from the age of 80 to 85, and if all are exposed and if the 14.8 % figure is correct for people over 80, we will have a cumulative death rate JUST in that narrow group of 390,506.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
You speak the truth Drymer. This was/is a test run for next time, when it will be the real deal.

 
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