[ArthurTandy1]

Nationwide in the USA, the death rate from COVID virus is 1.6%. That is your chance of dying from covid. Here are the stats

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is ... e&ie=UTF-8

Cases Deaths
49.8M 796,000
49,800,000
Compute it 796, 000/49.8 million Deaths

[JohnRawls]

Nationwide in the USA, the death rate from COVID virus is 1.6%. That is your chance of dying from covid. Here are the stats

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is ... e&ie=UTF-8

Cases Deaths
49.8M 796,000
49,800,000
Compute it 796, 000/49.8 million Deaths

Ok? I am not seeing a point here. 800k is a lot of dead people. People vast majority of whom could be still alive, with their families and friends, producing something or doing their business, being business owners or doing their own work, paying taxes, having fun etc.

[Unthinking Majority]

Nationwide in the USA, the death rate from COVID virus is 1.6%. That is your chance of dying from covid. Here are the stats

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is ... e&ie=UTF-8

Cases Deaths
49.8M 796,000
49,800,000
Compute it 796, 000/49.8 million Deaths

It's much lower than that when you figure many asymptomatic people get COVID and don't know it and that doesn't show up in the case counts because many people who get COVID were never tested for it. The death rate is probably below 1%.

[Pants-of-dog]

That is not an important question.

Better to ask yourself what the chances are that you could be an asymptomatic carrier and accidentally infect someone else.

[B0ycey]

Worse argument ever. That is potentially 5.3m dead.

I think there is a lot of unwanted or useful hysteria going about. But that is because the chances of dying must be significantly below 1%. If you are arguing that 5.3m people dying is ok, then you haven't made a very good case. And to give you an idea of how stupid your case is, a hundred smarties in a tube. One is poisoned. Are you going to take one and eat it?

[Potemkin]

The death rate of the entire Second World War - the most destructive conflict in human history - was about 3% of the world population. The mortality rate of Covid-19 is somewhere between 2% and 3%.