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A comment on Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVID-19 in Hubei [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVI... by yread on Sunday March 08, 2020 @09:35AM (#22517930)
Yes, bit more dangerous than BASE-jumping. No, thanks. When was the last time you did something that had 0.2% chance to kill you?

Also what this number kind of glosses over is how are the survivors doing. Half of those that get ARDS have life-long consequences. There are still 20.000 active cases in China, 1 month after the epidemic peaked there.

EDIT: I took BASE jumping risk from here http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812 not from the wiki reference

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Re:Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVI... by IanCal on Sunday March 08, 2020 @10:23AM (#22518145)
That's also the risk without some major reward. If you want to do base jumping you're trading that risk for an exhilarating experience at least.
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