Quote Originally Posted by WSOPdawg View Post
No way in Hades' have I read all 239 pages of this thread (stopped following it after 50 pages or so b/c of all of the arguing/defending of both sides)...

but now that more data is filtering in, Mississippi's death rate of less than 5 people per 10,000 who contact the virus really makes a loud statement about stopping the fear-mongering and letting the virus run it's course... just sayin'. And my thoughts definitely won't be popular with my wife, who's ready to shut down the economy again.
Nobody is paying any attention to the death rate anymore because the treatments have gotten so much better. It's the hospitalization rates, the amount of time spent in the hospital, and the lingering effects of the virus after you're "cured" that people are worrying about.