that is a totally rubbish number!
But you probably know that, I hope so anyway!
The current UK death toll from covid-19 is 0.05% of the population with the peak infection rate having been passed at the beginning of last month, so we are well on the way to the end.
I believe
your number is bogus too but you are missing the point, probably intentionally. Like
@old4570, I was simply offering that figure merely as an illustration.
Of course, unsurprisingly, you focus on this brief illustrative post but completely ignore my 635 word reply to your initial post about the centenarians who survived COVID-19.
Nevertheless, rather than listen to you I will go with the percentage CFR -
case fatality rate number I quoted and linked to from the
CEBM - The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - at
the University of Oxford, ......you know, that particular 924 year old august institution in Britain.
The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) =
mortality in the UK is 14.38% as of today
! That's an insanely high number and indeed it is the third highest on the list. Since you are so fond of arrogantly and condescendingly comparing the UK to the USA, you should note that the United States is 20th down on the list as of today at 5.9%, CFR. Not a good number to be sure, but certainly not in your UK league.
At this point, Nigel I'm really about done with this particular unpleasant interaction with you except to say one last thing.
I posted those news items about those eleven people from around the world between the ages of 102 and 108 who miraculously had the constitutions to survive infection with the COVID-19 virus even in some cases conquering serious cases of pneumonia, because it warmed my heart and inspired me and gave me a bit of hope and it gave me some joy, and I thought perhaps others might feel the same way.
And joy is certainly something we could all use a little bit of right about now considering the current state of affairs in this pandemic ridden, toxic world we are living in these days.
But not YOU! JOY is apparently not something in your playbook. Instead Nigel,
you are literally the
only person here on the forum who would use a story like this as yet another opportunity to pick another petty, self righteous, know-it-all, but completely empty spat dismissing the entire burgeoning field of gerontological biomedical research because somehow you think you know better and you always need to present yourself like you are somehow the smartest guy in the room.
It is a shame really, but one for all to see.
The way you seem so indifferent to human lives, one can't help but come away with the impression that you have few if any friends, family, loved ones, extended family or elders in your life who would surely end up as eventual victims in the "herd immunity' CULL from the COVID-19 virus you so vehemently promote. And that is indeed a sad, sad commentary.