AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:03 pm
WhatEVER will people under 70 DO????
If I give you a jar of 200 jelly beans and tell you that one is laced with potassium cyanide so that if you eat it you will drop dead, are you going to eat a jelly beat out of that jar? That's the risk represented by the 50 - 69 group number.
How about if I give you a jar of 5,000 jelly beans. One is laced with potassium cyanide. Are you going to eat a jelly bean out of THAT jar? That's the risk represented by the 20 - 49 number.
On a related matter: My wife has a cousin who poo poos the risk. He, like me, is in the 55 through 64 year age group. If you look at the population of that age group and the number of COVID-19 deaths within it, you would say that about 1 in each 1,570 people who started the year in that age group have died of COVID-19.
So I asked him: "Let's say someone says they will give you a free ticket to a LSU football game and there will be 100,000 people there. It's free. But once you get in your seat you have to stay there. During the game, a sniper will shoot and kill 64 people. Will you take the ticket?"
BTW, I got reamed on this board a few years back writing about driving while intoxicated when I was talking about risks MUCH smaller than that associated with COVID-19. The risk that you will die because someone is driving drunk was much smaller than the COVID-19 risk 50 years ago before we went on the DUI crusade. MUCH smaller. And it's much smaller now.
We make a big deal about opioids. We're talking about something like 50,000 deaths per year. We are now at more than 5 times that from the COVID-19 pandemic in 9 months.
This stuff of trying to act like this is no big deal is stupid. It really is.