Originally Posted by
iahphx
By the tone of your comment, I know you're playing for Team Apocalypse and don't really care about facts. Those facts show there is a ZERO chance of dying from COVID-19 if you are young, and a near zero chance of dying if you do not have serious pre-existing medical conditions. These are facts, whether you are willing to accept them or not. Fortunately for Europe, it does seem like most Europeans are capable of understanding the science. For while the mortality rate in Europe is stratospherically higher than the USA (outside of NYC), Europe is reopening and most of the USA is not. Illness and death are terrible, but wholier-than--thou demagoguery isn't so great either.
Wow, comments like this make me hope that my country (UK) do introduce stronger border checks and restrict transatlantic traffic even though it will inevitably affect my ability to travel. People with these types of attitudes are not welcome in my country and my many friends in Spain and Italy would pass on similar sentiments.
This previous post is just complete fake news and makes bold claims about facts, yet if you see my sources below, these baseless claims are not facts in any way.
Although it is true that the majority of the death caused by COVID are people who are older and have pre-existing medical issues. A comment like "Those facts show there is a ZERO chance of dying from COVID-19 if you are young" is simply ignorant and wrong.
Please see the following news stories of young people dying in the UK due to COVID, including children:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-52263744 (21 year old with underlying issues)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52114476 (13 year old with no underlying issues)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ngham-51952607 (36 year old, no underlying issue but health worker)
I'm sure you will find similar stories in Italy, Spain, France and Belgium.
Here is an article from early April on the ages of people who died when deaths were at 3300 in the UK (they are now over 20k)
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/03/coron...e-uk-12506448/
3 people aged 0-19 (0.1%) and 26 people aged 20-39 (0.8%) had died at this point. If you extrapolate that to the current 20k death toll, if the same percentage is in operation that would be 18 people aged 0-19 and 157 people ages 20-39, tell their families that there is a "zero chance of dying if young"
Also the claim of "near zero chance of dying if you do not have serious pre-existing medical conditions" is questionable too, in this article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52308783 it showed that a study of 4000 COVID deaths in March and April in the UK, 91% of the victims had a preexisting medical condition. I dont know about you, but I would not call 9% a "near zero chance"