Yes Hayabusa, in that quote I wrote death rate but meant to write infection rate. Doesn't really matter though, because you keep citing the 60-80% infection rate as a real number when it's not. It's based on inapplicable assumptions.
Sorry, but this is wrong, but this is outside of your area of expertise. The infection is based largely on the way the virus propagates. By social distancing, we reduce THE NUMBER OF INFECTIONS AT ANY ONE TIME.
AT THE PEAK of the curve the worst-case scenario is that 40% of the population is infected AT THE SAME TIME. In the best case we postpone the peak but the max percentage of infections becomes 6% AND THAT MEANS that there are enough health care resources and THAT determines in large part the overall mortality.
To be blunt this is a matter of care and science outside your area of practice.
Think not? Use contemporary analytical methods and figures provided by the CDC along with your knowledge of epidemiology and infections to prove me wrong.
Everybody can go back and forth and I guess this is what P^N is all about hashing out opinion in a civil manner!
But the cold hard fact are people are dying for whatever reason........
One thing we all know and it should give us hope is that if we all act responsibly and take care of our own and treat each others needs with respect and compassion we will get through this with or without these deaths!
Perhaps in doing so we will learn if we have not already that all we really have is each other and family. Everything matters little!
Yet we have idiots still trying =stock pile food and TP and water!
Just an example, I was in Lucky which is a supermarket in California and some guy had his cart full of TP and full of water. They had opened up the check yourself lines and he thought he could neak through, because he knew that they would`nt let him at a regular counter!
Long story short this older gentleman almost started crying when he saw what this other man was taking! The lady monitoring the quick check express had left her station but another person who was not dressed in a Lucky uniform noticed this man and brought over a cart and took what he had except for what he was allowed! She then turned to this older man who was visibly shaken and he told her his wife was sick and he had nowhere else top go for TP or for water! She gave him what he was allowed and then another customer bought what she was allowed and gave it to him after she had paid for hers! She walked him outside and helped him put his stuff in his car and all was again right in the world for the moment!
As a side note it turns out this woman was working as store security......all is well that ends well!!
We have a number of educated people with Dunning-Kruger making definitive conclusions without the basic tools to do so. People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts as if that ever mattered.