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> 0.5% of the country infected Your own numbers show this is totally incorrect: death rate 0.5% times 40k deaths, means infected is 8 million (or more precisely the count was that number some weeks ago as deaths take time to happen). this has been an obvious calculation from the start and I am not the only person trying to correct the misuse of the confirmed infected count (287k) for your conclusion. Honest question:…
> why do you not know this? Leading with an insult? I agree that the numbers don't match up and the country is almost certainly more infected than we think, but we cannot know how widely infected we are until we've done the testing! Even the death rate has a factor of two variance between "definitely COVID" and "excess deaths". The failure to ramp up testing is yet another thing to blame the poor government response…
However, your comments feel to me like an engineers rationalisation - technically correct but misdirected. The feeling is vague, and my words are not describing it correctly. I suspect that I would need a high bandwidth medium to discuss this.