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Re:Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC ... by fragsworth on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:43PM (#22824401)
You ignored my question, you already said less than 1% is unacceptable, and just repeated yourself. Forget COVID, I'm referring to a future theoretical disease - at what death rate does a nationally enforced lockdown of a few weeks become acceptable?
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Re:Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC ... by w3mmpp on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:06PM (#22827207)
10 times the rate of the flu is a good basis I think, or 1% death rate. But confirmed, not like right now where we all know we haven't counted a lot of people in that number of cases and therefore the death rate is a lot lower.

Another thing, it's not weeks, we're talking months here, May 1st it's not gonna be back to business as it was before.

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