Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by syshum on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:24PM (#24216743)

I take your anecdote, and raise my own as I have had several family members die in a car crash, and zero die of Covid soo....

Your anecdote is not more valid than mine.

>>The Australian statistics

it seems Australian drive about 30% fewer miles per year on average;

in the US the risk of death in Auto Accident is 1 in 106, or .95% which I think is close enough to 1% to give the Grand Parent a little slack

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by Rapzid on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:16PM (#24217408)

Lifetime odds.

They were projecting 3 million may have died if we did nothing over a matter of months; 100 years worth of auto fatalities..

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by syshum on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:12AM (#24222015)

I think we can safely say at this point that those projections were widely inaccurate and have been dis proven several times now as they were based on a completely inaccurate and incomplete data set.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by Rapzid on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:57AM (#24250361)

So, the CDC currently believes well over 200k people have died in the USA as a result of COVID-19. That's with the lock-downs and all the other measures we have taken.

What are the current projections on how many deaths would have occurred if we did nothing?

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by ImaCake on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:22PM (#24229159)

>incomplete data set

They were. The COVID deaths in the USA are about double what has been reported. Not a conspiracy, just a reality of how the deaths are coded due to testing constraints.

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