Coronavirus pandemic 2019-20 #4

Mir wrote:

GarryB wrote:Except statistics are statistics...

If the virus kills you then the chance of it killing you is 100%, and if it does not then its chance of killing you is 0%.

1% of 9 billion is an enormous number of people to sacrifice...

Your calculation is very warped but I'll humour you anyway, but the actual point is that like polio and small pocks, covid should have been zeroed by now if these jabs were actually true vaccines. Well at least that's what you would expect in countries where between 70-90% of the population has been fully vaxxed. Yet we see a spike in a "new variant" that has been spread throughout the world by "fully vaccinated" travelers. Amazingly in Africa with the lowest vaccination rate in the world, people are still alive and kicking and seemingly not really effected by the virus anymore.

First of all there are around 7.9+ billion people on this planet atm and not 9 billion.
I've taken 2018 as a good pandemic free year. 57.6 million people died that year which is around 0.75% of the total 2018 population.
Today we have around 5.5 million people that died from the virus over a period of almost 2 years.
If you divide that in 2 and add a few extra you'll get around 3 million deaths in a year,  being very generous.
Also keep in mind that in the first year nobody (or very few) was vaccinated.
3 million "covid deaths" a year is around 0.03% of the total population - a very far cry from the 1% from your own very warped CNN-like calculation where you claim that the virus will kill off 1% of the population!

In 20 years time the virus will kill off 0.6% of today's population but the bad news is that this year we've had nearly 137 million births already!
From my perspective the virus is not going to make much of a dent, but all those jabs and endless booster shots may just do the trick?  

Mir wrote:Perhaps I should have started my sentence with "At the current rate" in 20 years time the virus will kill off 0.6% of today's population. Nevertheless if you look at the flu you'll see that the annual death rate remains consistent despite the fact that very few people are actually jabbed against the flu virus. The only time when there was a real pandemic was in 1918-22 with the Spanish Flu. Since then nothing - despite claims to the contrary. Go look at the graphs for flu over the years - there are no major spikes at all except for the Spanish Flu.

Also consider that millions have been fully jabbed in 2021 with no apparent effect on the infection rate at all - in fact we are experiencing the largest spike since the plandemic. If that trend is to continue then the 5th and subsequent spikes will be much larger in magnitude as we go along this suicidal route. As I've said - all those booster shot may just do the trick?

BTW we are also animals but some animals are more resilient than others. If a starfish looses one of it's limbs it just grows back again in no time. We clever humans will find it very hard to survive without any cash in hand.  

franco wrote:Out of curiosity and for the sake of information sharing. How many members here have contacted Covid? I was diagnosed with it yesterday. So far just cold like symptoms but I am 65 with some COPD.