German COVID Study

Obviously need to confirm this with some wide ranging testing ... but fairly encouraging that 15% of people have had the virus and the mortality rate is 0.4% ... about 2-4x more than that of the typical annual flu depending on severity
Until the world gets its act together and tries to actually understand the denominators this whole thing is FUBAR
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Ok. So it’s double or triple the mortality rate - without any significant time spent or money spent to date on vaccine or treatment options other than the front line tonic water/zinc cocktail (fuck off to the literalists. That’s a joke, fuckfaces).Tequilla said:https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows-a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-of-about-0-4-percent/
Obviously need to confirm this with some wide ranging testing ... but fairly encouraging that 15% of people have had the virus and the mortality rate is 0.4% ... about 2-4x more than that of the typical annual flu depending on severity
Until the world gets its act together and tries to actually understand the denominators this whole thing is FUBAR
Even at that, not worth the extreme measures taken if and when this flares up again next season. It’s just not, given that we now are getting reports of herd immunity being built up and the possibility this is the second wave of COVID sweeping through.
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The 2-4X number will be a fraction of this if and when real testing is ever performed. But it begs the question, why hasn't the testing of the entire world ever been demanded like this in past exposures to new viruses? But, but, but this is so much more contagious...whatever...started drinking too ealy this morningPurpleThrobber said:
Ok. So it’s double or triple the mortality rate - without any significant time spent or money spent to date on vaccine or treatment options other than the front line tonic water/zinc cocktail (fuck off to the literalists. That’s a joke, fuckfaces).Tequilla said:https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows-a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-of-about-0-4-percent/
Obviously need to confirm this with some wide ranging testing ... but fairly encouraging that 15% of people have had the virus and the mortality rate is 0.4% ... about 2-4x more than that of the typical annual flu depending on severity
Until the world gets its act together and tries to actually understand the denominators this whole thing is FUBAR
Even at that, not worth the extreme measures taken if and when this flares up again next season. It’s just not, given that we now are getting reports of herd immunity being built up and the possibility this is the second wave of COVID sweeping through. -
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If and when there's actual statistics, not AAU scorekeepers and coroners taking a vacation from toe-tagging the proper cause of death, my guess is COVID is going to be slightly above normal flu but nothing special.DuckHHunterisafag said:
The 2-4X number will be a fraction of this if and when real testing is ever performed. But it begs the question, why hasn't the testing of the entire world ever been demanded like this in past exposures to new viruses? But, but, but this is so much more contagious...whatever...started drinking too ealy this morningPurpleThrobber said:
Ok. So it’s double or triple the mortality rate - without any significant time spent or money spent to date on vaccine or treatment options other than the front line tonic water/zinc cocktail (fuck off to the literalists. That’s a joke, fuckfaces).Tequilla said:https://reason.com/2020/04/09/preliminary-german-study-shows-a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-of-about-0-4-percent/
Obviously need to confirm this with some wide ranging testing ... but fairly encouraging that 15% of people have had the virus and the mortality rate is 0.4% ... about 2-4x more than that of the typical annual flu depending on severity
Until the world gets its act together and tries to actually understand the denominators this whole thing is FUBAR
Even at that, not worth the extreme measures taken if and when this flares up again next season. It’s just not, given that we now are getting reports of herd immunity being built up and the possibility this is the second wave of COVID sweeping through.
Less than a 2X multiple, quite easily.
And Jake Browning still sucks.
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Smallpox in the new world was fake news too
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Pitchfork51 said:
Smallpox in the new world was fake news too
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@swaye survived the white man's pandemic through his bloodline via good breeding techniques and natural selection.
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I was right you were right.GrundleStiltzkin said:I was right.
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Praise Allah.PurpleThrobber said:Pitchfork51 said:Smallpox in the new world was fake news too
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@swaye survived the white man's pandemic through his bloodline via good breeding techniques and natural selection. -
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PraisePurpleThrobber said:Pitchfork51 said:Smallpox in the new world was fake news too
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@swaye survived the white man's pandemic through his bloodline via good breeding techniques and natural selection.Allah.Spirit Horse -
I was right. So was domoan.GrundleStiltzkin said:I was right.
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