" With a larger population, you're always going to have larger mortality rates for almost every illness."

Mortality rate is expressed as deaths per thousand, or hundred thousand etc. It is a relative measure and should not be affected by population size.

Solus wrote on Apr 17^th, 2020 at 9:25pm:


  I should have said it better. I meant to say TOTAL deaths by the percentage of the population.
 

Solotrippers linked article (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links); explains better than I could why comparisons of death from one recording system to another down not work.  One thing I think we can agree on is the last sentence of the article.
Comparing confirmed cases is an even less reliable indicator because if you have not testing you have no confirmed cases.   

  South Korea has about 52 million people.
The US has 327 million people.
There is NO-WAY we could do what they are doing.

They also don't have a Constitution or Bill of Rights like ours. I seriously doubt the government here could do what S. Korea has done and its citizens accepted without major LEGAL and CIVIL challenges by the people.

  Those growing back to work protests illustrate that.
 
If you watched the WH briefing you saw both Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and the CDC head give DETAILED explanations of why they DON'T need to test everyone and why the can't have a test for every single person.

  Suicide hotlines are lighting up and domestic abuse is on the rise. Getting back to work at even a slow crawl is the only cure for that.

  The election will ride on how the majority of people think the administration handled this crisis and getting the economy moving again overall.

  I hear a lot of his political critics say how they could do the job better but when I check their records when they WERE in power, they fall flat on their faces.

  They say Covid-19 virus is in your urine/poop?

  I think before next year they'll have a simple PEE test similar to a pregnancy test.

  A vaccine is a real answer but even then there could be issues. They could never develop a universal flu vaccine because the flu keeps mutating.

I've read that Covid-19 has mutated a few times too. A Chinese strain and apparently a European one?

  It could turn-out that like the flu they'll have to have a different vaccine every season to match the current mutation?

  Then you have to have everyone buying into getting that annual shot. Sometimes that regular flu shot has side effects that are worse than the flu?

  I've NEVER had the flu as an adult and never get a flu shot. I'm either very lucky or have a good immune system or maybe having it as a kid gave me some immunity?

  This is our first fight with Covid-19. Remember how things were when SARS and EBOLA hit the scene.
We learned a lot from our first bout with them and now BOTH are very treatable and NOT a death sentence. It will be the same with Covid-19.

  The REAL crime will be after all this the states DON'T stockpile like they should have BEFORE they needed it.

And IF the Federal government under a different administration goes back to adding layers of bureaucracy that hinder the private sector coming up with innovative treatments/cures in record times because the DC bureaucracy isn't tying their hands with endless layers of red tape.

  The 2020 election is going to be a referendum on that too.

 

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  One of the "good" things coming out of this crisis is that our nation's ability to innovate is going at full speed. New technologies are going to spawn new business's as we go into the new "normal".

I saw an ex-NASA scientist on Fox this morning talking about a "new" style of UV light that can kill viruses but NOT cause skin cancer in humans.
If it works out maybe it will kill FLU virus too?

  They use UV light robots to sanitize hospitals but
no humans can be in there during the process.

Now some real smart people have found a specific wavelength of UV light that won't hurt humans.
  The guy on Fox was showing how they could make lights to mount in your car/house entry/workplaces/business entrances that would sanitize people every day while you live your life.

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