Re: Covid19 world status map
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 3:16 pm
Don't get me wrong here, ofcourse it's really sad what happens.
The problem with those comparisons is that they do nothing for anyone other than downplaying what is a serious problem at the moment.
To a certain extent that is true and that is one of the reasons why a simple comparison of the number of deaths from flu in the USA in the 2016/17 flu season with the CURRENT number of deaths from coronavirus has no meaning. However one can calculate the current mortality rate based on deaths known to have resulted from the virus as a percentage of known infected cases. That rate will, of course, change over time and it wil be different in each country/region/place and for each agegroup (which is another reason why focusing solely on the number of global deaths has no meaning). That's why I said "may be" in what I wrote earlier. I don't think though that that invalidates the point about the differences in orders of magnitude of the mortality rate from the coronavirus as compared to that from flu.
Which you will never know for sure, just like for any disease of this kind, so what's your point?
Sure we are...
Don't worry, I can reassure you: Residents in northern Germany are every bit as terrible.fudgonaut wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:36 pm My experience is anecdotal, and not representative of what others are experiencing in my area. Take it with a grain of salt.
As a resident of Seattle I will say this: lots of people are behaving like idiots. This is not just another flu - but it's not the Apocalypse, either.