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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 May 2020, 05:50:23
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Pretty much every State is either not-testing or fudging the numbers.
It's reasonable to assume anywhere with equivalent population density will have approximately the same outbreak/percentage-of-death
Undercounting is between 3-10x, Soooooo, we're probably ~1.0 million deaths at the end of this just in (USA).
But you'll never hear about it, just like the 1 million liquidators (chernobyl cleanup crew) that didn't die due to radiation according to the Nooqulr regulatory agency. Or the ~1 million new cancer cases as the result of Fukushima.
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This accounts for the misleading mortality rate. If we don't know the total number of infected people, we can't know the actual mortality rate, only the mortality rate of *known cases*, which is meaningless.
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Yeah, the stats are crap. Had to laugh when they added 'non-hospital' deaths to the UK count, which means care homes are included. Care homes being where elderly people go to die.
And the 8 people at work who've been off with symptoms? Not a test between them. It's OK though because my part of the country doesn't have many cases. I guess we don't have many high density population areas so could be accurate.
Is the high death rate supposed to scare the intellectually challenged in to staying home, or at least keeping apart in public? It doesn't, at least among the people I know/see.