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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Everyone just needs to calm down. What's the worst case scenario again? Something like 5% of the population might die from this virus? The middle-of-the-road prognosis is around 2%? So even if you catch this thing you're about 20 times more likely to survive it than die from it?
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Wait, what? 5 percent, or 2 percent even is terrible. 16 million, or 6 million. Think about one of twenty people you know being dead from this. The annual death rate from all causes is less than 1 percent. 5x that is catastrophic.
We can hope it's well below 1 percent.