Re:My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn
by semi-extrinsic on Saturday February 29, 2020 @04:27PM
(#22453218)
Yeah, 1 in 2000 is 500 micromorts, somewhere in the 400-500 micromorts region.
The wikipedia article says skydiving is 8 micromorts per jump. So more like skydiving 50 times?
I don’t think biologic math always works combinatorially like multiple sky dives.
This sometime troubles me with radiation dosing comparisons. Another is time distribution, when a radiologic imaging study is equated with exposure from X amount of time in an airplane at high altitude. The time frames are different—- drinking 1 liter of water in an hour is usually safe, and drinking 50 liters of water is fine spaced out over a longer time period—-but not 50 liters over an hour. Radiation doses are often quite time dense.
That's 414 micromorts, which is almost exactly as risky as skydiving once on average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
Source: US NCI 2007