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by throwawaysea 1995 days ago
The infection fatality rate for those aged 50-69 is NOT 2%. It is 0.5% per https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

As for those who don’t want to be locked in a room - sounds like they want to have it both ways - just the right amount of risk reduction and a sooner path to living their lives freely. But why is their desire for a normal life more important than others’ desire? Why should others have to give up their freedoms and endure an extended lockdown to enable them, instead of living their lives freely now?
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riffraff 1995 days ago
but I wrote "in their 60s and 70s", replacing people 50-59 with 70-79 will obviously give you different results.

I agree with you, people want to have it both ways and it's easy to get upset with them, but that's how the world is, and if the healthcare system gets overwhelmed because of people who don't care everyone else still suffers.

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ptaipale 1995 days ago
Even 0.5 % fatality rate is huge, in my opinion.

For polio, only 0.5 % of those who contracted polio had nervous system symptoms. Of this small minority that developed muscle weakness, about 2 to 5 percent of children and 15 to 30 percent of adults died.

Still, it was a frightening disease, until it was eradicated by vaccines (except where it wasn't: now that covid has brought the world's focus back to vaccines, we should do something about that, too.)

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