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Old 06-29-2020, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott h View Post
Absolutely.
Scary if you think about it ...... so you have 12 people over for a BBQ at your place .... one person comes over with Covid and infects the other 11 ....... one of those 12 people will die.

Crazy.

The position many government organizations and public officers have taken is to avoid using % or ratios to describe how deadly this virus really is. I would think that putting the numbers in a way as described above would allow more people to understand how serious this is and it would likely cause a panic.

I don't blame them - hate thinking about it that way.

When they use rates instead of % or ratios - most people can't figure it out (or relate to the scope/impact of the numbers)