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by Fire-Dragon-DoL 27 days ago
I mean, people are sick what, 3 times per year? Those with kids probably around 7.

So for simplicity, let's say people self diagnose 4 times per year and they are right 4 times because they are not dead and back to work.

You can then grab statistics for deaths and overlay that, but the enormous amount of false negatives you would get by doing what you are suggesting is staggering, I don't consider that a good idea.

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Well by that metric each person only gets to be wrong once. If course it's a low number.