• LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :doomjak:

    Someone called me a pussy on Youtube and said it had a 99% survival rate

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Love that argument, you can hide a lot of shit with percentages. Let's see here according to wikipedia USA has 331,449,281 people in it.

      1% out of that is 3,314,492 people. Which is slightly more than the entire population of Puerto Rico and slightly less than the entire population of Mongolia.

      Like sure this isnt exactly the next Black Death (just waiting on that variant), but a lot of fucking people will die because of this dumb fucking shit.

      • an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        1pct bcuz of the disease itself. how many gonna die cuz they cant get surgery bcuz of the accompanying collapse of the healthcare system, which was already super fucking rickety

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Was trying to point out that even if it's only 1% it's still fucking horrifying amount of death. Obviously it's going affect things and thus the actual number is a whole lot worse.

      • HntrKllr [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        1% Ah yes nice to see the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska and both Dakotas wiped

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Like sure this isnt exactly the next Black Death (just waiting on that variant)

        H5N1 bird flu, baby! It's coming.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      99.99% survival rate, actually. 99.99999% even.

      You just need to discount all the people who died and add in all the people who haven't been born yet, and this shit literally has had no impact on anything ever.

      But also China is a bloodbath and the Wuhan Flu is wildly under reported and don't trust anyone more olive-skinned than an Italian.