Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
by wbl on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:00PM
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If 0.5٪ of the population was dying in a car accident every year you can be sure there would be a massive safety effort.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
by tinus_hn on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:53AM
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0.5% of 30 year olds is not going to the hospital for Covid-19 by a long shot.
In the Netherlands there are approximately 1.100.000 people between 30 and 34 years old (inclusive). Of those people 150 entered the hospital. That’s 0.01%. Most of these people are not dying (in fact only 3 of them did, which is 0.0003%) and while there isn’t a number of people with the chronic problems it definitely isn’t all of them.
By the way slightly more than 0.1% of the population dies every year due to smoking. I have yet to see the massive safety efforts.