Name:   CRD - Subject:   CRD eschew obfuscation Date:   12/1/2020 12:47:42 PM

Read this article and get back to me Archie.  

3. Havers FP, Reed C, Lim T, et al. Seroprevalence of Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in 10 Sites in the United States, March 23-May 12, 2020. JAMA Intern Med. Published online July 21, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.4130.

You should, after critical reading, be able to see the flaw in your elementary calculation.  If you would like, I will walk you through many such articles in the literature that attempt to quantify not only the CFR, but also the IFR.  These numbers can be stratified according to age groups, states, ethnicities, time periods, available health care faciities, and so on.  Your calculation may be correct, it proves your calculator is working,  but your number is irrelevant and not used to base public health policy. 

Happy reading.

And BTW, not once have I ever commented that I hold the younger aged individuals in any more regard than our most vulnerable aged population.   Quite the contrary, my stance has been to do all we can do in order to protect the most vulnerable (as in not infesting nursing homes with COVID patients ala Cuomo) hiring nursing home staff with already acquired COVID immunity if possible, taking meals and other assundries to homes of the retirees, limiting visitations and when necessary, in vast open spaces or outdoors.  Meanwhile, those who are the least vulnerable should NOT bear the burden of limiting the spread of COVID and should be allowed to resume life as normal as can be utilizing aggressive hygiene measures, consistent social distancing as herd immunity is built.  This benefits us all. 

Just my opinion Archie.  I try to base mine upon the literature I research and read and not MSM news headlines.