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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by nradov on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:02PM (#28695546)
How likely would she to be dead? I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but even without vaccination the CDC estimated the fatality rate at only 0.6% for the population as a whole. We should take this seriously but exaggerating the risks isn't helpful.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by nobody9999 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:34PM (#28696091)
>but even without vaccination the CDC estimated the fatality rate at only 0.6% for the population as a whole.

And so, at least for the US, that's ~2,000,000 dead people.

I don't know where you come from, but that seems like a lot of people that don't necessarily need to die.

Or am I missing something here?

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