re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and a reminder that COVID mortality is not a fixed statistical rate but rather one that depends on the availability and quality of medical care

And also that a COVID infection is not necessarily an automatic death sentence: even if the ~2% mortality rate is way higher than the “ordinary flu” the denialists keep harping on about. It’s a horrifically serious disease, but -despite all those high-level officials who have reported infections - that most would recover (care-quality being important) is not unexpected.
Disappointing, though, in one aspect: as the Mrs. and I were discussing last night, while we really don’t want to wish a deadly disease on anyone, we were quite willing to make an exception for Donald Trump….