Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason

Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by foolzcrow on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:12AM (#24615749)

Covid 1984 is bullshit. Damn I used to think Stallman was intelligent. 99.99% survival rate. I guess I have to vote Trump to get you morons off your fake covid non-scientific fear campaign

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by pmoriarty on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:17AM (#24616298)

"99.99% survival rate"

If it had a 99.99% survival rate, it would mean only 1 out of 10,000 people infected with COVID-19 died.

200k people in the US have died of COVID-19. Mulitply 200k deaths by 10,000 and you get 2 billion people in the US infected with COVID-19. The US has a population of only about 330 million.

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by mas3god on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:19AM (#24616316)

> population of 330k

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by s9w on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:20AM (#24616319)

99.9% would have been more precise, which aligns well with the current numbers.

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by pwinnski on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:27AM (#24616380)

The term "survival rate" applies to the infected, not the entire population. When a plane wipes out against a mountain in the Andes, you don't use the population of the entire country to claim that the survival rate of the crash was high, you count only the people who were actually in the plane.

So 209,454 deaths suggests a 96% survival rate[0], based on our current information.

Perhaps more to the point, since humans are generally bad at visualizing statistics, 209,454 people have died, making COVID-19 the third-highest cause of death[1] in the USA this year so far.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200818/covid-the-third-lea...

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by s9w on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:29AM (#24616401)

Survival rate = 1-Ifr. Ifr is ~0.1% so 99.9% is right. There were no 200k corona deaths in the US.

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by pwinnski on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:56AM (#24616611)

There have been more than 200k deaths from COVID-19, and the year is not yet over. I linked to information supporting the number I gave.

I actually think the number is a bit higher, since not all deaths triggered by COVID-19 are necessarily reported with COVID-19 as a comorbidity[0]. But there are certainly not fewer!

[0] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus...

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Re:Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason by pwinnski on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:19AM (#24616314)

Don't misrepresent the seriousness of the pandemic to justify your choice to vote for Trump. Just vote for him if you want to vote for him, but be honest about it.

You are dead wrong about COVID-19, as rudimentary math should tell you.

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