Just for reference....there are 83-million Germans for the total population.
Total number of Covid-19 deaths? 74,643.
Total infected since day one? 2,654,734.
Total recovered? 2,409,700.
Number of Germans in a hospital presently, on a ventilator? 1,596.
Vaccinated with the first shot? 8.7-percent.
What numbers aren't collected? Well, it's a curious number and would beg for more questions....what's the number of people who've had their second bout with the virus. It wouldn't surprise me by mid-summer to have some people perhaps on their third bout with the virus.
It seems no one is doing the math and asking some hard questions. I'd like to see the reaction, if some newspaper/tv would give a rough breakdown on the numbers:
ReplyDeleteOut of 83 million Germans being exposed to this "highly contagious" virus, 2.8% have become infected, of those infected, 2.9% have died, making it less than .001% of population.
In the U.S., we have similar ratios.
And for this, these countries have bankrupted small businesses, locked down their economies, setting them back a few years and upset peoples lives?
You are asking an awful lot out of journalists.
ReplyDeleteI follow localized numbers (my German town) a good bit. When they announce a local death...they (the local journalists) will at least tell you the person's sex, their age, and about half the time....will remark if they had pre-existing conditions (like cancer or COPD).
Even back in the fall of 2020, most folks who follow this type of reporting would suggest that the bulk (say 90-percent) of deaths revolve around folks over the age of 75. There's probably a couple of folks in their 50s, but the bulk are elderly deaths. If you approached any elderly individual (Americans included) and put the aspect of pneumonia into the situation...there's a pretty high rate of death. That's pretty much the issue that you have...if you can't survive pneumonia, it's probably the same rate for Covid-19.
As for commerce? You have a lot of people who have 'flip-switch' understanding of the market. You cannot shut-down the only ice cream shop in your town for twelve months, and expect it to reopen a year later, without any issues. I'll probably write a essay/blog over this shortly, but it's a juvenile way of thinking over how shoes are manufactured, transmissions are repaired, or how a barbershop can function.