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I agree with you that 1/6 would be unacceptable, if that's what the post you replied to intended.

On the other hand, 1/600 means between 16 and 17 dead for every 10000 people infected.

Of those 16 to 17 people, the vast majority have one or more comorbidities, mostly caused by lifestyle choices, and probably have little time left anyway.

I have nothing against wearing a mask. I quite enjoyed the anonymity ;)

I do not think cloth masks are very effective against a respiratory virus (it even says so on the box of the ones most people wore in Denmark).

I do think lockdowns are very damaging and we are going to have to live with the virus.



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