That is an understandable position. I think more damage is being done with mental health issues and waiting only exacerbates those.
Time for South Carolina to be like Texas and Reopen the state.
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Now instead of with COVID do it of COVID.
I don't even know how you would calculate the odds of dying in a car crash in a single trip. I guess there may be stats on the average number of car outings per year. per person. Whatever number that is would be less than the chance of dying of covid.
I’m sure it’s in the left lane under the speed limit too.
If it was up to the left, we'd all still be lapping up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's drool and following whatever that bum was droning on about. Time to open up! Let us take the risks we want!
This is the type of info that helps his/mine/your case. His statement was still ridiculous.
Don’t give a single shit. Time to reopen 100% everywhere.
Only about a 98.85% chance of living if you caught the Chinese virus. I will take those odds.
Yes my friend, unfortunately they are correct. .08 chance of dying in a car crash, .07 of dying from coranavirus. The comparison is splitting hairs I know, but FAR from ridiculous.
Would love a Venn diagram of the pro-lifers in here alongside the "don't give a shit about the dead and suffering" crowd. The results would be hilarious.
Oh boy, the stupid false equivalency. I thought this one had run its course at least six months ago.
Yea, that's how people who don't like facts tend to respond.
First, tell me you don’t get your “facts” from Twitter. Secondly, I can’t believe I even feel the need to address this but, Canada and TX don’t have people living in the same proximity. Canada is over 10 times larger than TX so by default they won’t have as many exposures or deaths.
As your president would say, “Come on man, gimme a break.”
I'm going to do the math for you based on your .08 percent chance of dying on the way to the pharmacy and then I am done arguing about this. Just to use round numbers, let's say there are 300M people in America. Over a years time, that would be 300,000,000 x .0008= 240,000. So at .08%, there would be 240,000 deaths per year by car accident. Now to show how truly ridiculous your statement is, lets determine how likely it is to die on any one trip to the pharmacy. If we assume people only make one car trip a day, we would multiply 240,000 by 365 days per year. 240,000 x 365 = 87,600,000. So by your math we should have over 87 million deaths from car crashes a year. Obviously, that is ridiculously wrong.
I would also like to see the Venn diagram of people that are horrified by 500,000 covid deaths and are ZFG about the 2000 unborn children murdered everyday.
Two things...
If we are taking IFR..
.08% is for all ages. If you are under 40, that number is a factor of 10 less. Also, .03% for all ages is more accurate.
So, for under 40 the number is .003% is .00003 which is in the ballpark of dying in a car wreck in the way to work which is around 1:25,000 according to actuarial tables.
Where are we accounting for the 100 fold increase in teenage suicide rates?
Also, Lockdowns and restrictions that are more flagrant in blue states is manifest systemic racism. Being anti-racist is also anti-lockdown.
The logic you used above is inherently flawed. If you want to use that methodology you would need to change the Covid statistics to the chances of contracting and dying from Covid in one day not the annual number you are purportedly using. Here are the real statistics using South Carolina numbers. This is for people under 35 years old because Superica said he’s early thirties. There are 5.2MM people in the state of which about 45% are under 35 (2.34MM). In the last year total, 60 people under 35 have died of Covid. In an average year 650 people die in car accidents. They are usually skewed to younger Americans but we’ll just say 300 of those are under 35 to be conservative. There is the actual data. You are 5 times more likely to die in a car accident if you are 35 years old or younger than you are from Covid. Doesn’t mean you can’t have a bad outcome just like in a car, but the actual risk of death for under 35 is extremely low. Now this is for 35 and younger. Covid is very serious for the elderly population and moderately dangerous for middle aged Americans. However, most of the high at risk have already been or will be vaccinated within the next several weeks meaning it’s time to start cautiously moving back to normal. Those are the facts whether you like them or not. Google away and prove them wrong.
Yeah, bigger issue through MSM than it actually was. Lot of people had issues, but took it on the chin and went about their business. I had to cut back a dozen Oleanders and haul it off today....... that sucked. Be a great time to own a nursery in these parts
Would also love a cross section of “MUH BODY, MUH FREEDOM, NO MASK” and the prolife crowd.
glad to hear you are vaccinated. You can thank Donald J Trump
It’s a shame that Trump and his wife didn’t feel the need to mention to anyone that they were quietly vaccinated before leaving the White House. Might have done wonders for the Bill Gates Antichrist Microchip crowd seeing their fearless leader deem it a priority even after having the damn thing.
I am reasonably sure he did not mean dying from covid in one day. I'm pretty sure the chance of catching and dying from covid in one day is zero. I do not know of any case where someone contracted and died from covid in the same day. I'm not even sure if that can be determined. If that is what he meant, then I will agree, but I don't think that would even occur to anyone.
This always makes me laugh...
You libs always push “the science” yet you can’t figure out the difference between a man & a woman?!
Sit yo ass down somewhere!
I meant catch Covid on a particular day and then later dying. He was trying to discredit a previous poster who actually made a true statement that dying in a car accident is more likely than dying of Covid if you are under 35. He used fuzzy math and I felt the need to correct it for the record.
You're right, if I came up with my calculations with hypothetical figures. But, I did the number of car accidents to deaths vs number of positive cases to deaths. Feel better now that you wasted your time doing the wrong calculations? Also I did world wide since car accidents and corona virus cases happen world wide.
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I will give my only bottom-line fact. I am tired of people telling me how to live my life. I don't decide what is right or wrong for anyone else but me and my family. I expect the same.
The death rate for car crashes is way closer than you insinuate to death rate of covid. Problem is dying with covid and of covid isn’t separated, thus leading to insanely inflated numbers.
If I used your .08% number with the world population it would be equally ridiculous.You're right, if I came up with my calculations with hypothetical figures. But, I did the number of car accidents to deaths vs number of positive cases to deaths. Feel better now that you wasted your time doing the wrong calculations? Also I did world wide since car accidents and corona virus cases happen world wide.
Nothing should've ever closed down, so yea everything needs to be open......in my area everything has stayed open the whole time so nothing really affected me......I don't mind wearing a mask.
Again, actual cases vs deaths as a result. I'm using actual statistics, you aren't. Hope this helps
So you were trying to say he was more likely to die if he had a car accident than he was than if he got covid?
