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Originally Posted by DogFace
Every Fox News viewer knows that the virus is just a liberal hoax that can be easily cured by pounding a couple gallons of bleach and getting a good night's sleep. Dear Leader Trump would never lie to us.
Clearly there is a camp of people who honestly believe Covid-19 is a hoax or a means of controlling people. Then, there is another camp - let's call them the 'in-between' camp. This camp believes the Covid pandemic is real and potentially dangerous to a lot of people, but at the same time, realizes there are many opportunists out there among the ranks of politicians at all levels of government who will use the pandemic to sway large blocs of people for political gain. This camp believes the pandemic response and lethality of the virus is blown out of proportion relative to the case mortality rate. Covid is no Ebola, Hanta Virus, or Small Pox. There are approximately 4,700,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and about 150,000 deaths. If 4,700,000 were the total number of cases among the entire population of Americans, the mortality rate is around 3.19%. However, many scientists estimate the number of infected Americans could be as much as 10x higher > 47,000,000. At a conservative estimate of 4x higher, that's 18.8 million cases with 150,000 deaths, or a mortality rate of 0.798% or about 1 in 1,250 people. Ebola has a mortality rate between 50.0% and 71.0% vs 0.798% for Covid.