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j"19HxigV4QyBv3tHpQVcUEQyq1pzZVdoAutM«From schear.steve at gmail.com Wed Sep 16 09:10:05 2020 From: schear.steve at gmail.com (Steven Schear) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:10:05 +0100 Subject: 200,000 In-Reply-To: <e5b7c8ee-a7b4-c4fd-9a94-cdecda1d61ba@tsto.co.uk> References: <20200227150109.a7rszad4dmdpnle7@sivokote.iziade.m$> <cb05f504-c2e9-ade4-41d4-635af536bc56@tsto.co.uk> <e5b7c8ee-a7b4-c4fd-9a94-cdecda1d61ba@tsto.co.uk> Message-ID: <CAMyHXXdTH6hFXTtO5LBa=NJw6=OP9gtAJ=YRWg64L-2QJ+2K_g@mail.gmail.com> Perhaps Covid19 will help reduce some of the Social Security actuarial issues unaddressed by Congress failing to raise retirement age. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 12:47 PM Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote: > On 28/02/2020 22:09, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > > Best data I have seen for COVID-19 mortality is from 50 in 10,000 or > > 0.5% for the young-and-fit to 1,500 in 10,000 or 15% for those over 75 > > and those with pre-existing heart disease. Diabetes and COPD are also > > bad co-morbidities to have, at about 10% mortality. > > > > COVID-19 seems to kill mostly the elderly, but not nearly as exclusively > > as 'flu. The young-and-fit are also very much at risk. > > > > This would give an overall mortality rate of about 150-200 per 10,000 or > > 1.5%-2%. With an estimated 65% of the US population catching COVID-19 > > that would be 4 million US deaths: much worse than AIDS, and potentially > > the worst pandemic since the Plague. > > > > Peter Fairbrother > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1325 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/attachments/20200916/a1de86c6/attachment.txt> text/plainbinary(b6f9b216ac98dcb1af8ff693ee0e81d67fab51fd