anyone changing plans ?

[Kold Ass Mofo]

Part of the problem with this calculation is that it would depend on whether you lived in a state where lightning was infrequent or in the lightning capital of Florida. Also, now when the virus has just begun spreading (like now) or projected density weeks and months from now. And, finally, if you shelter inside or run around with a tinfoil hat during a thunderstorm.

The other part of the problem with a lightning comparison is that the numbers being reported in the media are only for confirmed infections, a small portion of the total number infected.

Where I live you can't get a test unless they can connect the dots to an infected person, or you travelled internationally. They tell you NOT TO GO TO THE DR OFFICE or ER, stay put and self quaranteen. Call 911 when you're close to dead. A local woman was in Los Angeles, travelled by plane, is sick as %$# after returning, infected her husband. They won't test her because she did not leave the country. Just turn your bedroom into a diy ICU. Easy as that.

Flu kills 0.1% of infections, probably less since many people don't report.
Cov19 kills 3 to 5% depending on what numbers you use. 30 to 50 times more deadly and it is highly contagious by people with no symptoms, unlike the flu where you are sick as ^%$# when you are infectious.

Try reading Scientific America and not CNN or FOX for health news.

[gregandkelly63]

Flu kills 0.1% of infections, probably less since many people don't report.
Cov19 kills 3 to 5% depending on what numbers you use. 30 to 50 times more deadly and it is highly contagious by people with no symptoms, unlike the flu where you are sick as ^%$# when you are infectious.

Try reading Scientific America and not CNN or FOX for health news.

Not sure where you are getting your numbers, but they are way off. Here are the number for flu deaths from the CDC


0-4 years 1.3%
5-17 years 0.4%
18 - 49 years 1.8%
50 - 64 years 9%
65+ years 48.7%

Maybe Scientific America should fact check with the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html