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

[ancianita]

97. The thing is, 1% is a hypothetical. The current death total is 4% of the confirmed total.

The US's current death percent correlates with the world's.

The other thing is, hypothetical or not, this is STILL a good rubric for seeing the future death total's impact on the whole country.

The total confirmed count right now is not even 1% of the country, so more complete testing and more confirmations will come closer to the picture this rubric presents.

Thanks for posting this, even if it's a hypothetical.

It's still important to think about the effects on future generations. I'd add:

Assuming all the numbers above are WITHIN the top 62,358,000 hospitalized, who don't die, they are 19% of the American population.

Subtract 73,700,000 children under 18, and 254,500,000 adult workers are left. CURRENTLY.

Don't even assume growth in medical capacity.
Do you have evidence that new facilities are being built?
By whom? By the .01% who got the TRILLIONS that Americans should have gotten, instead?
Do you have evidence that a federally organized pandemic response even exists?

Reopen the economy, and the 19% who survive COVID
-- will not be able to work or pay taxes
-- will become the newly disabled class who cost society more than is paid now
-- will need Medicaid expansion or Medicare 4 All. Republicans who already hate taxation will not want to pay for them this side of death, anyway.

SO, the reopen issue is NOT "the economy vs 1%.”

The issue is what the remaining 78% can do to pay for the sickened economy AND still survive during the time it takes to revive what's left of the economy.

The answer to "What's the big deal of 1% death?" is this:
-- The US economy will not survive with the 19% survivor costs that the 78% will not be able to pay.
-- The US economy will not survive even 20% of Americans getting COVID-19.

If you want to bear that cost, then you will, while learning Russian for free, and while Russia's Putin reminds you that all the white supremacists' belief in "winning," and "great again" were worth the "sacrifice" for the Eurasian Project.

What an economic, political, social vision for the next four years. Russia and Putin are waiting for it.