> I think people are going to look back at something with a 1% death rate and wonder why we panicked so hard.
What has a comparable death rate that nearly the entire population has been exposed to?
> Various winter viruses kill on the same order of magnitude, and they kill the same old, obese, sick population.
Name this virus please. If you're thinking the flu, it's estimated that each year worldwide about a billion people are infected and there are ~450,000 deaths[1]. That's a 0.045% death rates, and that's one of our winter biggest killers.
To bring it to America, the CDC has death rates at ~0.1-0.2% [2]
I cited sources to make my arguments in good faith, I'd thank you to do the same.
Regardless, that's moved the discussion a bit, but it's myopic to look at just death rates. What about the rate of hospitalization? ICU use? Death is just one facet of care, and it's assuming a medical system that could absorb the excess load across all areas. If it couldn't that would have lead to markedly increased death rates as those who required more mild care found themselves without that required assistance.
What has a comparable death rate that nearly the entire population has been exposed to?
> Various winter viruses kill on the same order of magnitude, and they kill the same old, obese, sick population.
Name this virus please. If you're thinking the flu, it's estimated that each year worldwide about a billion people are infected and there are ~450,000 deaths[1]. That's a 0.045% death rates, and that's one of our winter biggest killers.
To bring it to America, the CDC has death rates at ~0.1-0.2% [2]
[1] https://ipac-canada.org/influenza-resources [2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html