Re: Will Oregon wimp out & buy out?
Originally Posted by
89MTBISON
Good grief, Audit! Double the fatalities to date to 200k for the entire year. That's only a 7.1% increase over the 2.8M we've been averaging annually for quite a while now. If you died from stroke in NYC the last three months but tested positive for Covid, your death is listed as Covid. One body, two deaths? It doesn't work that way. Do you not understand case fatality rate? .004
220 million needed for herd immunity x .004 =880,000 people.
Sounds about right.
Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
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Scrooge-"And the Union workhouses." . "Are they still in operation?". "Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
Scrooge- "If they would rather die," "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."