03-23-2020, 06:22 PM
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
According to the latest figures, Italy has 59,138 who have tested positive, and 5,476 who have died. That yields a mortality rate of about 9%, in a country with a modern healthcare system. If you don't try to protect the healthcare system by slowing the disease, the mortality rate goes up because it's not possible to treat people who are really sick.
Also, whether the rate is 2.5% or 9%, the idea of doing that kind of cost-benefit analysis goes out the window when it's people you know. I have elderly relatives who are posting on Facebook that this is all some kind of suspicious hoax. They are going to change their tune before too long.
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Lil smile, my cousins in Adelaide are calling it the American disease as they blame US tourists for it hitting them.
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