Originally Posted by djs
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
There are over 20,000,000 people in the NYC SMSA. Total dead will probably be a fraction of 1%, so over 99% of people will survive. If you look at it from the "half full" perspective, who wouldn't take a chance when the odds were better than 99 to 1? Or so it seems to me.
Doesn't seem so bad, but let's see:
- 1% of 20,000,000 = 200,000 dead Americans
- 1/2 of 1% (or 0.005) of 20,000,000 = 100,000 dead Americans
- 1/4 of 1% (or 0.0025 ) of 20,000,000 = 50,000 dead Americans
- 1/10 pf 1% (or 0.001) of 20,000,000 = 20,000 dead Americans
Seems like big numbers to me, especially if anyone I know is in them.
Yep. And many of the survivors will have permanently damaged lung tissue for the remainder of their lives.

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