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re: Chance Warmack opting out of 2020
Posted on 7/28/20 at 4:07 pm to tider04
Posted on 7/28/20 at 4:07 pm to tider04
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Meh. The death rate of this virus is going to end up being far less than 1%. If you have 99.6% odds of survival for the chance to go make millions, you gonna sit at home? It's just not logical. Most of us are at more risk of dying every time we hop in our cars and drive to the grocery store. Does that stop us? Of course not. Every decision in life is a risk/reward decision. For these young, elite athletes, their risk is probably in the .0001 percentile. It's basically a non-factor statistically. Now, I get guys who live with a high-risk person wanting to keep them safe--but for many millions--I'll move out for 3 months and live in my own apartment. Just seems like a big overreaction by a huge portion of our society to something that's basically 99.5 percent non-lethal.
If only the damn virus was only transmissible through anal intercourse with water buffalo...
If the whole country caught it at a 1% death rate, what's 1% of 383 Million people?
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Posted on 7/28/20 at 8:04 pm to stomp
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If the whole country caught it at a 1% death rate, what's 1% of 383 Million people?
Not even a remotely legitimate question if you're going to vastly overstate both the total death rate and the population.
Posted on 7/29/20 at 9:36 am to stomp
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If only the damn virus was only transmissible through anal intercourse with water buffalo...
If the whole country caught it at a 1% death rate, what's 1% of 383 Million people?
Straw man. The death rate isn't going to end up being 1%. Maybe half that. US population is around 330 million so assuming a .5% death rate...if EVERY single person in the US caught the virus (which won't happen because you start to hit herd immunity around 60-70% of the population) than we'd have around 1.5 million deaths. At the very most. That's worst case scenario and not even very realistic. Of those 1.5 million the vast majority would be people that would have died anyway in the near future (nursing home patients, 80+ year olds, those with chronic heart conditions and those who are morbidly obese.) Look, it sucks. But having us spiral into another great depression would be far more deadly than 500k mostly already very old or very sick people dying because of this virus. If you are old or sick, isolate and wait for a vaccine. Everyone else, wear a mask, socially distance, wash your hands...and LIVE LIFE.
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