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How many COVID-19 deceased do you knew personally?
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0xdeadbeef:
The whole idea of proving the danger of Covid 19 this way is somewhat flawed . E.g. in Germany with about 83 Million inhabitants, around 9000 people died of Covid 19. The official relative death toll is 109 per million or one of ten thousand. So unless you know 10k persons personally, the chance of knowing one deceased personally is rather low. Besides, a high percentage died in nursery homes. So again, if you don't know a lot of people from nursery homes, your chances are rather low. Actually one of my relatives got Covid 19 in a nursery home where 12 of around 120 patients died. I visited this nursery home several times, my mother visited it very week until it was put under quarantine. There is not the slightest doubt that these 12 people died there even if I didn't know them personally. That's tragic and scary enough for me and I'm rather happy that I don't have any friend, colleague or relative who died of Covid 19. However, apart from that relative of mine, also one of my colleagues was tested positive. Again, that's close enough for me.
In a nutshell: be happy if nobody you know died of Covid 19 but that just proves that the the relative number of deceased is low enough to save you from this experience. Which is a good thing, isn't it?
Caliaxy:
I don’t know any. Numbers are worse in my area, but should I be surprised?

In my state there are 8310 reported deaths for a total population of about 6.9 million. That’s about 0.12% deaths.

In order for me to know at least one of them, I would have to know personally about 830 people. I believe I’m friendly and approachable, but I’m quite sure I don’t have that many friends and acquaintances.

According to this news article https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/the-average-american-knows-how-many-people.html, an average person knows about 600 people. I lived in 4 different states so far. Assuming I lived an equal amount of years in each of them (just for the sake of this back-of-the-envelope calculation) and I was equally friendly in each of them - I probably know about 150 people in my state. This number is about 5.5x smaller than 830, the number of people I should know in order to hear of one of them dying of COVID-19.

So no, I’m not surprised I don’t know any.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on July 12, 2020, 11:04:27 pm ---The difference between wikipedia and eevblog, is eevblog is populated by people I know, and love, and trust, while wikipedia is populated by anonymous editors (for me, which I am not a wikipedia editor myself)

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This all sounds like a good example of a cognitive bias where personal and anecdotal experience is valued over factual and statistical information.
RoGeorge:
Yep, I've been under many regimes in my life.  I know what statistics and media are saying.  Just want to know about your personally encounters.  Nothing more.  Not trying to prove or disprove anything.  Not interested in your country or regional statistics that are officially posted online, either.  This is all about personal encounters and personal experiences, please.

Just vote the correct number of people you knew in person, if you are kind enough, please.  Or just ignore this thread if you don't feel like getting the personal encountered numbers.  Thank you all.
steve30:
None.

A couple of people in my family have had tests for Coronavirus and were found not to have it. I don't think anyone has had symptoms.
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