07-28-2021, 12:59 PM
(07-28-2021, 12:50 PM)Whatever Wrote: You can't really say that the numbers on COVID cases can't be trusted because of the sources, then pimp the 99% survival rate that's been fed to us by those exact same sources. You can't pick and choose which stats from those sources are credible and which ones aren't.
Survival rate is one thing, but hospitalization rate is another. Many metropolitan hospitals have been forced to turn away patients due to being full because of COVID patients during the pandemic. I personally think it's pretty f-d up that people can be turned away from receiving health care because people are taking up hospital beds for a condition that has a readily available vaccine that dramatically reduces the chances of hospitalizations, but people are going to do what they want to do. Of course, those unnecessary hospitalizations also jack up the cost of health care for everyone, too.
That is a good point and the reasons I believe the survival rates is because first off its one of the only things most people agree on including the "experts". Also, I know a lot of people who had covid, including my now 98 year old grandpa, my 74 year old diabetic aunt, my 75 year old mother and may othr friends and family who many are over 65 and none of them died at all. I do know an older fella at my moms church who had some underlying condition was in ICU for a few days but he ended up pulling through. So in my circle there was 100% survival rate with people who are considered higher risk for complications.
