Chances of getting COVID-19 are slim, dying from it even slimmer
We deserve better than half-truths and propaganda about pandemic
By Michael McKenna - - Friday, August 21, 2020
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
It is very unlikely that you will die from the coronavirus.
About 175,000 Americans who died in the last six months have had their deaths identified as “related to” the coronavirus. Is that a lot? Well, there are more than 325 million of us, so, even if every death “related to” the virus was actually caused by the virus, that’s about one death per 1,800 people. For purposes of perspective, about 175,000 Americans — in a population of about 200 million — died during the Hong Kong flu epidemic in the late 1960s.
Even among the elderly, about 90% of those who contract the coronavirus survive.
It is also unlikely that you will contract the coronavirus.
About 80 million tests have been conducted in the United States. Less than 10% — about 6 million — have been positive. A positive test does not mean that you will get ill. To date, only about 360,000 people have been hospitalized in the U.S. as a result of the virus.
Unfortunately, more people are going to die from the coronavirus. That said, the chances of you dying from the coronavirus are very remote, especially if you are under the age of 75.
Think about it for a second. If this were really that lethal a disease, the media would not be hounding us relentlessly to take it seriously. No one had to convince anyone in Florence in 1348 that the Black Death was lethal.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/21/chances-of-getting-covid-19-are-slim-dying-from-it/