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Re:Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams it... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:33PM (#24633275)
This horse is beaten to death. 1.7% among 60+ (not 1.17 among 70% like you wrote) fatality rate is extremely high. Any attempts to isolate younger population from older did work, whoever tried - the virus would eventually find it way into older population. Besides these number are not right. NYC data suggests 2-3 times higher numbers.
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Re:Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams it... by slaw on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:12PM (#24633643)
When you are 66 year old man, your odds to die within a year is 1.7%

Source: https://www.finder.com/life-insurance/odds-of-dying

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Re:Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams it... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:49PM (#24633991)
And? What does it have to do with Covid?
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Re:Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams it... by slaw on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:54PM (#24634026)
1.7% fatality rate is not extremely high for 60+ year old people. When you are old, you are more likely to die from flu, covid or anything.
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Re:Disney to layoff 28,000 employees as coronavirus slams it... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:04PM (#24634097)
Really? There is 100% probability of eventually dying for people of 0+ age. We probably should stop worrying about diseases at all. 1.7% is a very high fatality rate for everyone, old or not. And this is without having the hospitals overflowed.
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