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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by cm2187 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:19AM (#22978258)
If you cite numbers from Cuomo’s presentation why did you leave out his estimate of a mortality rate of circa 0.5% [1]?

[edit] also these rates are heavily skewed against 70+ years old and people with existing conditions. The risk to a random warehouse worker is really immaterial.

[1] https://youtu.be/TisDYYWJgBA?t=967

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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by jefftk on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:37AM (#22978416)
> If you cite numbers from Cuomo’s presentation...

I didn't watch Cuomo's presentation, and don't generally consume news via video. The two links I gave were to the NYT.

How do you get a mortality rate of 0.5% when you think 0.2% of the city has already died and 20% of the city has been exposed?

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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by eli on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:25AM (#22978312)
Five times worse than the flu is “marginally” more?
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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by cm2187 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:33AM (#22978381)
Five time a tiny number may still be a tiny number. The odd to win the UK lotto is one in 45m, the odd of winning Euromillion is one in 140m, the UK lotto is 3 times higher! Either way you won’t win either.

The odd of dying from this virus for a warehouse employee worker under 40 with no serious medical condition is not something they should worry about.

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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by vegannet on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:54AM (#22978561)
Yes but it’s very contagious, asymptomatic while contagious _and_ many people who aren’t at risk of death do come into contact with those who are. There are tens of millions of people in the UK who are vulnerable to severe consequences if they catch the disease.
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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by mullingitover on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:14PM (#22981553)
> Five time a tiny number may still be a tiny number.

A tiny proportion of a gigantic number is still a massive number.

Plus, most of the population has some level of immunity to the flu. Meanwhile, for coronavirus, every human being on the planet can be infected except the tiny number who have already survived it.

> The odd of dying from this virus for a warehouse employee worker under 40 with no serious medical condition is not something they should worry about.

Until we have longitudinal studies showing that there's nothing to worry about in the long term, this is a reckless assumption.

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Re:French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries ami... by colejohnson66 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:46PM (#22981840)
It seems you’re saying death is ok because it’s a small amount. Any death is bad if it could’ve been prevented.
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