I am embarrassed that UF has a guy majoring in microbiology who decided to come at me on Twitter because I called out he fear mongering about how deadly of a disease this is for everyone. I did the easy (and rounded) math. That 2.7% of cases in the US end in death and only 6% of those are healthy/young people with no co-morbidities. Rounding 2.7 to 3 that leaves a .18% chance of death for the young and/or healthy. Yesterday ESPN ran a ticker throughout the day/night about how low of a chance Madrid and Barcelona had of both losing yesterday and how incredible it was (.7%).
Well, this guy gets butthurt and says something like 217,000 dead proves me wrong. Well, assuming the 217,000 is reliable (it's not, hell, it includes over 3,000 people from NY that were never tested), it doesn't change the numbers I have from John Hopkins and the CDC one iota. Poor bastard then went into the emotional "friends/family are not stats" trope every f-ing lefty does with me when the numbers prove this thing isn't that deadly for healthy people like they, for some God forsaken reason, want/need it to be. I pointed out my original statement that I said we can protect the vulnerable while acknowledging the lack of risk overall for the young and healthy. But, apparently its a zero sum game.
POINT IS, Mullen and everyone else will more than likely to be fine.