Why are we hiding from a virus that has a 99+% survival rate?
Actually, the "survival" rate--right now--is around 98.15% (1.85% fatality rate). The survival rate (those who have had a disease and then not succumbed to it) is different than the all those in the general population who haven't died from the disease. Below are the three terms I know of that relate:
Survival rate: Percentage of those with a disease who have either recovered, or have not yet died, from it compared with the total mount of people who have had the disease (1,000 have had douche disease, and 900 are still living, thus 90% survival rate)
Fatality Rate: Percentage of those who had a disease and have died from it (100 died from douche disease out of the 1,000 who had it, thus a 10% fatality rate)
Mortality Rate: Percentage of those who have died from a disease out of the entire population, not just those who have had the disease (1,000 out of a total population of 1,000,000 people have died from douche disease, thus the mortality rate is 0.1%)
I don't know of a specific term which means the opposite of the mortality rate. In the above example, since 1,000 of 1,000,000 have died from douche disease 999,0000, or 99.9%, have not. I know of no term referring to this 99.9%. In a more real-world scenario, the US has a population of around 331M people, with about 170,000 having died from COVID, for a mortality rate of 0.05136%. But there is no term for the 99.94864% of the population who have not died from COVID (this is the figure that many people mistakenly refer to as the "survival rate"). You can't "survive" something you didn't have or weren't involved in (you can't be a cancer survivor if you never had cancer, or you're not a car crash survivor if you were never in a car crash).
I get your point about how small the overall danger of dying from COVID is...I just wanted to point out that the term you used wasn't correct.
great gif...
