Hi Nivek, it seems that the information that Bruce sent me is not at all as rigorously checked as I would have thought from the source.... and by your determined opposition to the notion, I have been trying to clear up the disparity derivation.
Firstly, I messaged Bruce to ask where the chart came from? ... No answer yet. ... and so have spent some time online checking the validity of the chart, and found no corroborating official lists ... but found plenty of references to your own figures. Having said that, I see that they are all emanating from the same original source, which is the CDC... which in turn accepts the numbers of unverified death certificates as quotable data.
And If you look at the
CDC data in this link ...
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
... And I have found that this practice is not confined to the U.S, but rather is the accepted method used almost globally. Even in my own country, the figures that are bandied by the press have been has been queried by many who suspect exaggeration , even the health secretary Matt Hancock seems to mock the official figures quoted ...
So given that, who knows what the true morbidity rate from covid 19 is? ... But I agree with your comment of the chart being erroneous, and probably would agree to the 'ridiculous' comment too, .. but cannot say that I could agree with the numbers that you quoted either and that in this day and age of 'fake news and media-propaganda' i'll suggest that we'll never really be certain of the true death toll of this virus!
All that said, ... I will stick by my previous statement of it being "time for us all to get a grip!" and start getting back to as near as normal as we can before it's too late for the world's economy and evolution progress to recover.
... It's not a very nice thing this corona virus.. but then nor are a lot of things in this world, and even if the 'official numbers' that you have accepted are correct , and the mortality rate as advertised is in fact
1087035 ... COVID-19 situation update worldwide, as of 14 October 2020 ... and with the current population [as I type] being
7,818,547,600 [and counting] then that means that the average mortality rate of corona virus is
2.84%.. which is of course sad and terrible, but not even close to making me think that it's time for the whole world to start regressing as it surely will if this humongous fear is encouraged.
Yes, as I said in the [offending post] that we should also be 'sensible' and we would surely "soon adjust to the reality of this 'not-so-superbug'! .. by being sensible, I do not mean drive around in your own car 'wearing a face mask' as I have seen some people do on many occasions since the outbreak... nor do I mean phoning the police to report your elderly neighbour for having his/her grandkids around for Sunday lunch! .. and I do not think it a reasonable idea whatsoever to allow people to go into a pub , but can't have a beer unless they are having something to eat! ... the list could be endless if I could be bothered, but the main thing that worries me about this current trend of media-scaremongering is that the sensation-seeking press are relishing in the flummoxing their less than savvy readers [in particular the guardian readers] into canvassing the feckless government into shelling out the national wealth on furlough payments in order for the country to down tools and stay at home! [nice work if you can get it ... but then what is going to replenish the governments coffers? ... how are they going to pay the teachers, police , army, NHS etc?... how are they going to build the roads, houses, keep the street lights on etc? ... in other words, how are they going to stop the kind of dystopian Mad Max type future that we all love to watch at the cinema ... if everyone is too scared to go out to work??
... So let's get it right mate, a 2.8% mortality rate is not too much of a cost to avoid the complete horrors that this present state of mind is leading us to! ... Alright, i'll say it again, it's about time that we all got a grip of the big picture and get back to some assemblance of normality, with the codicil of protecting the ones that truly need protecting. .. the disabled and elderly... the rest can take their chances as nature decides.
Cheers Buddy.