Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

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(10-27-2020, 09:00 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: Millions

Survival rate is in the extreme high 90's.

Mask up, social distance if you can and live as normal imo. 

Here is the crazy thing about "survival rates", while the number seems good, when the infection rate is so high it's about as dumb of reasoning as one can use. Let's say I have a disease with a survival rate of 25% (meaning 75% will die), but is not easily transmitted and is controlled to only 10,000 cases. That would mean 7,500 people will have died from it. Now, I have a disease that is a super spreader that has infected 8 Million people but has a survival rate of 97% (meaning only 3% die). That would mean 240,000 people died.

Which disease was a bigger issue?