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Old 17th Apr 2020, 14:32
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Originally Posted by Paul852
It is a great shame that so many people believe what they are fed by the Daily Mail or similar...
If you actually go an look at the data you will find something like this:
Chances of dying if aged 85 and catching Covid-19: about 15%
Chances of dying in the next year of all causes if aged 85: about 15%
Wake up and pull the wool out of your eyes people!
Well I do not know which newspapers you read , but mine ( le Monde, Guardian , WSJ , NYT, etc.) all give a different picture . Even if you are 85 here is a big difference between dying of a stoke and spending 3 weeks in a ventilator to start with . That said the age bracket people ending up in hospital is much wider than only older people . From what I hear if you come out alive of the ventilator you lungs are so damaged that you cannot do much anymore. If you were correct the mass graves in NYC of the 16 pages obituaries in the Local Italians newspapers where it used to be 1 or 2 would all be fake news then ?
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