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by The Annoyed Man
Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:34 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What if the lockdown was all a big mistake?
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Re: What if the lockdown was all a big mistake?

Grayling813 wrote: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:40 pm What if the lockdown was all a big mistake? By Dr. Ron Paul
https://mises.org/power-market/what-if- ... ig-mistake
From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets. They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest US government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017–18.
As of today, based on CDC numbers, the Covid-19 fatality rate in the US is approximately 0.0127%. (41,758 deaths divided by approximately 330 million Americans).
Incorrect interpretation. The fatality rate isn’t measured as a percentage of all citizens, whether or not they’ve had the disease. The metric that makes sense to me is the percentage of CLOSED cases ending in either recovery, or death. You can’t really go by open cases, because you can’t make a valid prediction based on it. But even my preferred metric is no predictor of how many people WILL get it......or not.

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