Depends on what you are calling victims. At the risk of passing along inaccurate percentages, it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to 50% of those tested positive show no signs much less long term effects. That number is thought to be higher because if you have no symptoms you may not get tested. The part of your question that talks about long term effects, may be, again of severe cases but what is long term? Nobody has had this long term it's less than a year old. I've had broken bones and currently an injury that required surgery that's two years old and I haven't fully recovered yet. So who knows what the long term effects are. Ten years from now we may find out wearing a mask and reducing your air flow for six months to a year may cause a massive amount of people to have COPD or other problems. Who knows? We as people (most) do the best we can with the knowledge we have at the time. As far as I know no one has had a chance to redue life and said if I didn't do this one particular thing I would live a minute longer. Statistics may show that to be true but it's really hard to prove something else would not have killed the person at that exact same time just a different cause. You have one life, live it to it's fullest.
What are each of your own predictions on COVID19?
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Depends on what you are calling victims. At the risk of passing along inaccurate percentages, it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to 50% of those tested positive show no signs much less long term effects. That number is thought to be higher because if you have no symptoms you may not get tested. The part of your question that talks about long term effects, may be, again of severe cases but what is long term? Nobody has had this long term it's less than a year old. I've had broken bones and currently an injury that required surgery that's two years old and I haven't fully recovered yet. So who knows what the long term effects are. Ten years from now we may find out wearing a mask and reducing your air flow for six months to a year may cause a massive amount of people to have COPD or other problems. Who knows? We as people (most) do the best we can with the knowledge we have at the time. As far as I know no one has had a chance to redue life and said if I didn't do this one particular thing I would live a minute longer. Statistics may show that to be true but it's really hard to prove something else would not have killed the person at that exact same time just a different cause. You have one life, live it to it's fullest.