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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by lambda-11235 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:12AM (#24220706)
It is important to differentiate terminology here. According to DDG (which closely aligns with Google's results) the case fatality rate, the ratio of deaths to confirmed case, is 3.5%. For the death rate, the ratio of deaths relative to population size, is 0.01%.

Confirmed Cases: 21,991,954

Deaths: 777,018

World Pop.: ~7,800,000,000

Case Fatality Rate = Deaths/Confirmed Cases = ~3.5%

Death Rate = Deaths/World Pop. = ~0.01%

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by gadders on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:13AM (#24222023)
Case Fatality rate in the uk is ~1.5%, and still dropping: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/the-declining-case-fatality-ra...

It is also very strongly correlated with pre-existing conditions and age.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by aktenlage on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:44AM (#24220864)
It would be ridiculous to assume the Deaths/World Population figure is the risk for yourself.

That's similar to claiming that, because only 93% of all humans ever born have died so far, your risk of dying is 93%. It may be mathematically sound, but completely ignores the context of the problem: That for the living/not-yet-infected the result is still outstanding.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by Peepootoler on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:52AM (#24221590)
Unfortunately your risk of dying is 100%.
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