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Probably better survival than that. In July 2021, the UK DHSC told Steve Baker MP in a parliamentary answer that the IFR was ~0.096%. That I assume would have been for all age groups combined.

Moreover, that's 0.096% if you get infected. On the Diamond Princess, most people didn't get it. 20-40% of people in a country seem to have had no COVID symptoms whether they're jabbed or unjabbed.

So, maybe nearer 99.94% survival.

Almost certainly less severe than the 1968 Hong Kong flu. 86,000 Brits. died of that, in a population of 55,000,000, suggesting a population fatality rate of 0.15% and an IFR maybe more than that. Statisticians 50 years ago are thought to have been fairly honest.

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NOTE: that was a reply to Yuri Bezmenov's.

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