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by king_magic 2150 days ago
Oh yeah, sure, Texas opened in May. How's that working out? Spoiler alert: Texas is now an absolute disaster zone. Sometimes leaving health choices that affect other people up to individuals is a really terrible idea, as evidenced by the disgraceful state that your state is currently in.
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txsoftwaredev 2150 days ago
I've been living my life pretty much as before Covid here in Texas and have not experienced this disaster zone you are referencing. The state of TX has experienced around 6,878 deaths out of 28.9 million Texans. I'll take my chances with those odds.
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king_magic 2150 days ago
That's a pretty disingenuous way to frame things. The state of TX has experienced 7,341 deaths out of 454,364 confirmed cases - so far.

Besides a 1.61% death rate being nothing to sneeze at (and it's probably actually higher than that), you have absolutely no idea how many of those 28.9 million Texans will ultimately contract COVID - nor will you always personally know if you're an asymptomatic carrier, responsible for infecting more of your fellow citizens.

To each their own, but I would not want to take my chances with the actual odds you face in TX today. And I wouldn't take those chances with other people's lives. It's not just about you.

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jdminhbg 2150 days ago
> Besides a 1.61% death rate being nothing to sneeze at (and it's probably actually higher than that)

No, it's way lower than that. Deaths are probably undercounted, but nowhere near as much as infections are.

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coldcode 2150 days ago
Go to a hospital and see for yourself. You don't know when you will need access to a hospital bed; if there are none available for whatever you need it for, will you be happy with the odds then? Also the deaths are likely highly undercounted. Also most of the people who will die in the next month are just getting sick. 145,000 people in the US were alive April 1 who are dead now from Covid; I wonder how many of them thought the odds were fine on April 1.

In 1918 August most of the people who died in 1918 from the Spanish Flu were still alive.

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misiti3780 2150 days ago
The numbers coming out of texas and other places in the south do not look good, but if you look at the raw data it is true that on a per-population basis, NY/NJ deaths per X are much worse (as of today)
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