Here is a report which claims the global COVID-19 death rate is 3.4% overall:
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3-4-globally-higher-than-previously-thought-100-million-potential-deaths-in-models/
But since the true number of infected people is unknown and undoubtedly much higher, the death rate actually may be lower than that:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-really-have-coronavirus/607348/
In spite of everything, people still don't want to be quarantined:
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003031078460610-milan-vs-coronavirus-we-will-pay-for-consequences-of-this-panic-as-if-it-were-the-spanish-flu/
I understand the need to avoid panic and the desire to keep on living the way we always have, but somewhere along the line we need a wakeup call ... and this should be it. We cannot keep expanding our numbers and devouring the planet without the eventual need to impose controls on what people do and don't do.
The real discussion at this point ought to be about what rules we'll follow and exactly who will get to decide what they are. Right now those decisions are being made by corporations who are not accountable to anyone. Is that what you want?
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