[eveningcoffee]

I just saw a virologist give out the flu argument in addition to presenting the naive mortality rate and making an intentional arithmetic mistake (100-3.5=97, perhaps 96.5 does not feel such a big number anymore).

I would recommend to study this site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ if you want to be more informed.

[heartbeats]

Rounding up .5 is considered proper form.

[sp332]

I agree. If you only have two significant digits to work with, pretending to have more precision is a different kind of dishonesty.

[SamReidHughes]

100 - (3.5 +/- epsilon) is 96.5 +/- epsilon.