It's a useful way of seeing how we are tracking compared to other areas where they have published the same % (ie. everywhere). It's also good for annoying ning nongs.
Here in SA we have had 407 cases, 46 people have recovered and 0 deaths. So, the death rate here is 0% whether you use the proper method or the ning nong one...
USA has now had 7137 deaths in the past 14 days... regular flu season usually tops out at about 1750 a week...
I don't want to sound like some crazed lunatic here, but are all these numbers real? Their cases and actual deaths? A lot of Ferrari Chat friends (and a few other US mates not on the forum )that I still keep in contact with here, on Facebook and Whatsapp that live in the US are telling me it's not as crazy as the American media is making it out to be. They are all in self isolation with their families because they were told to go into lock down to stop the spread of the disease and they don't have it, neither do anyone they personally know. Although they hear the stories that a "friend of a friend of a friend" is recovering from it. And now a friend of mine posted this video on his Facebook page today. I just started to read some comments then, someone called it a scamdemic which made me lol. I agree with Ian's post he made yesterday or the day before.
What ? You think this is not happening ? This is some sort of conspiracy ??!! All of the countries in the world are in on it and are bankrupting their own countries ?? FFS, conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork when this sh*t goes on and a couple of people pick the right time to video and call it a scam who are basically retards China were welding doors shut weeks ago and we all thought it was barbaric, USA and Oz banned flights from China and were lambasted by the Chinese govt Now it's all a scam because some in-bred morons say so Let's ask the medical people if it's a scam and not some ****s with nothing to do for an hour decides she's going to be a viral sensation ..... FFS, I'm over the Kardashian ****wit genres
Maybe the Martians have landed or the lizard people have decided to store their food in the houses https://www.vox.com/2014/11/5/7158371/lizard-people-conspiracy-theory-explainer There are some people on this forum who have lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned ..... supposedly intelligent
Speaking of conspiracy theories.. did you know the back to the future movie predicted 9/11? Crazy people out there
And this from the WEF: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/we-could-be-vastly-overestimating-the-death-rate-for-covid-19-heres-why/
Greater New York has a population of 20million, so the risk of death is 0.001% Would a majority of people vote to destroy their livelihoods for this level of risk, compared to taking their own precautions?