So if my calculations are correct by your chart numbers in Harris county 3% of the population has tested positive of that 3% only slightly higher than the national average which is 2.4% roughly. Of that small number an equally small number of those will actually die. Current death toll in the US from Covid is .0067% of the population roughly. We should trash our economy, our country, our own personal livelihoods for that low a chance of dying? I would bet that your chances as a percentage overall of dying was pretty much that number before the virus ever got here. I can guarantee you if you are going to run a piece of farm equipment, drive a car or exercise today that your chances are way better than that you will die of one of those things.
You have to add that number TO the normal death or mortality rate.
What you are referring to is the value of MONEY vs dead people (the value of someone's life) , plain and simple.
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I would bet that your chances as a percentage overall of dying was pretty much that number before the virus ever got here. I can guarantee you if you are going to run a piece of farm equipment, drive a car or exercise today that your chances are way better than that you will die of one of those things"
Perhaps, but in case of farm accidents and auto accidents, those have to be added to the overall chances of death and, when we have a farm accident, other than the wage earning loss (that happens equally in both farm deaths and covid deaths) the farm death only physically affects ourselves (the victim). Covid is the same way. Every single person that gets Covid and dies from it, got it from someone else. Communicable diseases means exactly that. We can (and usually do) affect others when we contract a communicable disease, which is why they are called by that name.
Death toll in Texas, (all causes) for 2020 up to the 40th week of the year show that there has been a 14.9% increase in 2020 over the same period of 2019. Nationwide, the same period comparison shows a 10.4% increase. These are referred to as 'excess deaths' and by all accounts are attributed to Covid19. Nationwide, there have been 232,219 more deaths overall than in the same period 2019. That's about inline with the reported number of Covid19 deaths. (The US reached 200,000 Covid deaths on Sept 15.)
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HurleyJD. There is something very much wrong with your Bing "Daily new deaths" chart. Sept 22 shows a huge surge of 17,820 new Texas cases on that date. That is in error. Worldometer and John Hopkins Univ both show only 4,381 new cases for Texas on that same death.
