California governor Gavin Newsom warns that the state projects roughly 56% of its population will be infected with the COVID-19 virus over an 8 week period.
- California population = 39.5 million
- 56% of 39.5M = 22,120,000
- COVID-19 death rate = 2%
- 2% of 2,212,000 = 442,000
That’s 442,000 dead people as a result of infections incurred over the next two months. In California alone.
Anyone still saying this is no big deal, people are overreacting, it’s a liberal plot, not gonna change your behavior — go fuck yourselves.
And maybe pull out your smart phone and do that math with 330 million and 9 billion as the starting figures. (If you’re too lazy to figure it on your cell phone, which you could’ve done for months now, because these numbers have been there the whole time, it’s 3,696,000 and 100,800,000 dead.)
Now try to imagine the emotional, economic, and physical impact of that many dead bodies in that amount of time.
Or just keep insisting you’re right, and wait two months for someone to throw lime in a pit filled with your friends, your relatives, you.