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Well, considering that people live on average 80 years, I'd upperbound it to 4/1000 instead of 1/1000. Also I wouldn't call "dying less" a way to frame safety when talking about these type of chances.

So I guess Covid is twice to 4 times as deadly? I mean it's a very rough estimation and clearly I haven't considered everything. But ballparking it like this, I'd be inclined to say so.



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