Depends on the age group, innit. 99.7% is probably the under 16's mortality rate.
Must have missed that caveat on his cartoon. Presumably it includes the 10-20% fatality rate for anyone over 70 on there and all.
I’m not having a pop, but that’s not what he’s doing is it? And Joe public sharing the 99.7% figure off the back of this isn’t adding citations for the age range. And that’s before you get into hospitalization rates - it might not kill you, but it’ll put you in the ICU for a month if you’re in the wrong age range.
Garrison is being wilfully ignorant (at best) to suggest this only kills 3 people in a thousand and is really no big deal, and it’s the same attitude that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US (and this is the origins of those kind of opinions). That was my point.