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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by quintushoratius on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:19PM (#22981595)
I think he meant that your percentage is off. COVID by itself has a 1-2% mortality, not .1%, and has a rapid infection rate. The combined direct and indirect mortality is trending much higher, perhaps double.
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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by hkai on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:59PM (#22981941)
That 1-2% number seems to be an extreme exaggeration, mostly peddled by the media. From research it seems to be at 0.66% or so.

That's without taking into account that less than half of the population will get infected.

And if you're concerned about short duration of immunity, we shouldn't drag that thing for a year, everyone should get sick faster.

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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by TeMPOraL on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:22PM (#22982116)
0.66% if you're one case. More like 4% if there's more cases at the same time than your healthcare system can handle.
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