Double check your math:
NC Deaths 3961
NC Infections 246,000
Death Rate: 1.61%
US Deaths 220,000
US Infections 8,190,000
Death Rate: 2.69%
Worldwide Deaths: 1,120,000
Worldwide Infections: 40,300,000
Death Rate: 2.78%
(info per Wikipedia and NY times as of 10/19/2020)
I know 5 people who have tested positive. 2 in there 20's, one in 40's and two in their 80's. I'd like to ask all five their opinion on if it was "just the flu" as some people describe it, but 1 of them is dead, the 40 year old. The older couple, one is still complaining of dizziness, and "brain fog" as it's described and this is a month later. The younger ones are still in the active stage, so hopefully they have no long term effects.
Double check your INFORMATION and what it means, PLEASE.
Numbers are wonderful things but you must understand what they mean. While any deaths are a horrible thing, especially sudden and seemingly avoidable deaths, not all are unavoidable. What do I mean?
Number 1, By their own admission, the CDC is listing anyone who dies WITH covid as a covid death.
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Look at table 1. Look at the descriptions of the "provisional" death counts. All of the headings include pneumonia or influenza as well as covid. Covid may have brought on pneumonia, or made influenza more severe , but this is not the same as dying FROM covid.
Number 2, these "death rates" you quote are only if a person becomes infected, not the death rate of the entire population.
For example:
NC Deaths 3961
NC Infections 246,000
Death Rate: 1.61%
NC total population 10.5 Mil
NC infected percentage 2.3% of total population
NC death rate as a percentage (chance) 2.3% x 1.6% = .037% chance of dying from Covid in NC
Using the same math: ( AND the CDC's seemingly flawed lumping of all deaths related to covid , table 1) :
US death rate as a percentage (chance) 2.48% x 2.69% = .066% chance of dying from covid in the US
The one thing you can take away from this number is that living in NC you have a better survival rate than the US in general.
Food for thought: Historically speaking, globally the human race loses 3600 people per day to traffic deaths (1.31 million annually) .017% of the population, yet we still get behind the wheel without a thought.
Again, any death is a horrible thing, but numbers are numbers , they are empirical and we must understand the severity of them. If anyone here has it, or knows anyone with this, I certainly wish you well .