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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic
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To: FJB who wrote (1011)4/13/2020 4:02:58 PM
From: bruwin1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 22868
 
Here's my take on this "Total Lock Down" proposition that is currently underway ....

I believe that one has to take into account that we live in a world of Risks. We take cognizance of those risks and we then decide if we are prepared to take any one of them or not.

There's a risk in taking a flight from A to B. But the risk of a modern airliner coming down is extremely low, so we take it.

There's a risk in taking a train or the tube. There's been accidents in that regard. But once again the risk is low, so we take it.

There's a risk in travelling in our motor car or being involved in the Traffic "Environment". In the USA there are about 12 traffic fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, but one takes that risk.

In this regard we see the following statistic .....



But then, from the brief table I drew up a short while ago of the COVID-19 statistics in the USA (compared to Spain and Italy), we see that there are 0.00006 fatalities per head of population ......



That's 6 deaths per 100,000, which is ~50% of Traffic Fatalities in the USA !! .....

But we are not prepared to take that lower risk ?? .... So virtually the whole country has to stay at home, even though VERY FEW people in the USA who contract the Virus die from it per head of population ......
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