[just-juan-post]

They should not be.

Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study

Sept 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine, study in Indiana, USA

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352

People aged 40 or below have a .01% chance of dying.

People over the age of 70 have a 1.17% chance of dying.

Overall the chance of dying from the virus is 0.26%.

I encourage you to share this information.

[faitswulff]

The point the original post is making is that it's not just about dying. You don't know what the other effects may be on your body. Are you willing to roll the dice on it?

Furthermore, the more people that have it, the more out of control it will be. Obviously. And while on average your chances of death or debilitation are low, it will have outsized effects on minorities, frontline workers, and other groups. You're not just rolling the dice on your own health, you're doing so with the health of everyone you interact with as well.

[superkuh]

Your quoted figures were surprising to me so I went and read the source. Are you aware that the statistics you're citing explicitly don't include over half of the deaths in the sample? It's the fifth paragraph,

> Although nursing home residents were not tested, they represented 54.9% of Indiana's deaths. Thus, we excluded nursing home residents from all calculations (that is, deaths and infections).

[TillE]

You're responding to a discussion about serious long-term effects with death statistics. Why?