How can a disease with a 1% mortality rate shut down the U.S? Answered by Franklin Veaux:

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55. Hold on.

It's a 1% mortality rate of CASES and a 1% case rate.

This article assumes that everyone in America gets COVID-19. That does not appear to be happening.

So, this article is gloom and doom but doesn't reflect what is really happening.

In 4 months, we have had 3 million cases. That's 1% of the US. Of the 3 million cases, we have had 136,000 die. 4%. I haven't seen a hospitalization tracker, but looking at what happened to Boris Johnson, it's obvious that you can survive, but at a price. So let's say 20% are hospitalized for a month. That's 0.2% of the US population.

Now, there is another thing that isn't being taken into account. It's mostly the elderly and immunocompromised. So, our workforce is not so greatly impacted.

It's gloom and doom.

COVID-19 is serious, can be fatal, can do permanent damage to organs if you survive, and spreads rapidly if not contained with masks and social distancing.

But don't spin the numbers.