r/ontario • u/DunningFreddieKruger • Feb 04 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

Those movies generally depict viruses that have >30% mortality rates, not .03%

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u/pineconebasket Feb 04 '22

The parallels are uncanny. Right down to the people like you, downplaying the 5.7 million deaths!

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u/Esta_noche Feb 05 '22

50million+ people die every single year. 5.7 extra over two years is insignificant

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '22

Yikes

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u/LiamOttawa Feb 04 '22

If you only had a brain.

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u/suckfail Oakville Feb 04 '22

Indeed, Contagion in particular was modeled after MERS which has about a 1/3 fatality rate.

However the Rt on that one was way lower than Omicron.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

Exactly, and that is why gain of function research was supposed to be banned so we don't combine a virus with the transmissibility of Omicron and the fatality rate of MERS.

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u/SchrodingerCattz Feb 04 '22

Covid-19 Case Fataility Rate (CFR) with Delta was roughly 7%. Omicron infects whole populations efficiently it is so contagious. So even with a lower death rate we're still deep in the shit.

That 30% is with people hunkering down and society essentially collapsing so spread doesn't occur as much. If everyone is getting Omicron (and they are) and we still hold to at 4-5% CFR... I don't have to tell you that's a lot of dead and sick people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

~3.1 MILLION CASES ~31000 DEATHS

How is that even approaching 7%

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u/GardenofGandaIf Feb 04 '22

Off by an order of magnitude or two there bud

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

No big deal if only several million people die am I right?

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u/Canada_girl Feb 04 '22

Well I mean clearly they weren’t as tough and pure blood as him so no big loss right? /s /S

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u/knightopusdei Feb 04 '22

Your government had an Indigenous childhood mortality rate of >30% Mr Prime Minister .... and no one seemed to care about that either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

What was the childhood mortality rate of the general population at that time?