The Elephant In The Room

[BmorePat87]

(04-28-2020, 02:01 AM)McC Wrote: With 70,000 deaths among 328 million people, the death rate is .021%.  I'm not diminishing a single one of them 

I did hear a doctor say the American death rate was 400 per million.  That comes out to .04% but I can't get that math to work.  

Either way, life has to begin again.  

If you’re going to compare deaths to the entire population rather than just those who have been confirmed to have it, you need to acknowledge that the rate would be much higher if we didn’t have all of these mitigation efforts in place. More cases outright and a bigger strain on our healthcare infrastructure would cause that rate to increase.

Life has to begin again, but doing so right now would be devastating. We can’t begin to do that until we have the capability of conducting mass testing.