No more masks in Texas and all businesses are to open.

Flopsweat · Mar 7, 2021

clanhanson said:
500,000 deaths, a similar scale to the 1918 pandemic, should be a wake up call.
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Wait a minute. I was thinking about a 99.996% survival rate, and plagues that killed half of Europe, and I realized that the math was way off. First I see that you're comparing totals instead of percentages. Then secondly you missed three digits in one of the death totals. The world population in 1918 was 1.8 billion. There were 500,000,000 deaths in 1918, not 500,000, which comes out to about 27% of the world population at that time. If I accept the number 500,000 deaths for today, with a world population of 7.8 billion, that would be about 0.000064% of the world population.

500,000 / 7,800,000,0000 = 0.0000641025641025641

made in china · Mar 7, 2021

Flopsweat said:
Wait a minute. I was thinking about a 99.996% survival rate, and plagues that killed half of Europe, and I realized that the math was way off. First I see that you're comparing totals instead of percentages. Then secondly you missed three digits in one of the death totals. The world population in 1918 was 1.8 billion. There were 500,000,000 deaths in 1918, not 500,000, which comes out to about 27% of the world population at that time. If I accept the number 500,000 deaths for today, with a world population of 7.8 billion, that would be about 0.000064% of the world population.

500,000 / 7,800,000,0000 = 0.0000641025641025641

Hey! hey hey, you! You are not supposed to think. You are supposed to react emotionally and let the "scientists" and "experts" tell you everything you need to know...you must believe....thinking is verboten.

BTW, I believe 500K deaths is for the USA.

As I have said before, if 500K people actually died from Covid alone, that would be an average of 10K per state. That should reduce traffic volumes in metro areas a bit. However, traffic is worse than ever, and I have yet to see one person die of Covid.

I presume why I, and the people I know, have never seen or known someone to die of Covid is because it mostly killed people with a short time to live anyway, and/or the authorities are being way too generous with the definition of "died with covid".