Quote Originally Posted by Red Zone View Post
The reality is that nobody will ever know the true survivability rate for a couple of reasons. Firstly for the May/June period that you quote the number of people with covid will have been enormously understated as the number of people being tested for covid was severely restricted due to lack of testing facilities/equipment. Secondly ever since day one of covid, whenever that really was, the fact that you can have covid with no symptoms means that huge numbers of people will be missing from the positive test case numbers if they are not subject to routine/mandatory tests.

So given we will know with reasonable accuracy the number of deaths from covid, but that the number of positive cases are hugely understated all we really know is that the death rate will be significantly less than the actual published figures. I'm not belittling the tragedy that covid has become, for so many different reasons, but just cautioning about quoting published figures as gospel.
Add to that the fact that they are a bunch of lying b'astards, we'll never know anything for sure.