I believe his argument is that if you just let it run wild, most people wouldn't get it and so the fact that it would kill 3 out of every 1000 people it infected is irrelevant.
He claimed 3% of people got it so far, so say it ended up as 5% of the Canadian population. That means only about 5,700 people would die.
To get this straight.
So if 5% of the Canadian population (1,879,000) got covid and 99.7% (1,873363) of those survive, not recover, is 5,637 dead.
He stated 3% have been infected?
It is actually 4.3% of Canadians diagnosed with covid.
So 1,620,137 cases in Canada so far, 27,819 dead, which is around 1.7%.
Which puts actual survival rate at 98.3%
Why is the total death count at almost 28,000 if only .3% of people die?
So confusing when you base facts against made up figures like 99.7%
This doesn't take into account those with lifelong disabilities from covid and the future burden on the health care system in treating them.
Yes, I realize the diagnosed cases don't include people who have not been tested.
Figuring this way, close to 9,400,000 people would have had to be infected to provide the current deaths at 99.7%.
That would mean 82.5% of people who contracted covid never got tested?
Absurd when you think about it.
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