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"Just an arithmetical reminder: In a country of 330 million, if half the population gets infected and suffers an average 1% mortality rate (something only a few well-prepared countries have been able to achieve for people who fall ill with this new version of coronavirus) that would be 1.65 million  deaths. That would be more than 40 times as many people as died from the flu last year. The idea of lockdowns is to prevent exponential growth with a fast doubling time. "
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