What do you think affects an economy more, a virus with a 99.8% survival rate or a government with a 100% incompetency rate?

A 99.8% rate of survival *with proper treatment. Here in NB we've got an average age of over 46-years-old and only about 100 ICU beds province-wide. If COVID had managed to run rampant, the death rate here likely would've been more along the longs of what a lot of European nations saw -- upwards of 10%.

That said, the whole reason morbidities have dropped is because hospitals haven't been overrun nearly as bad. When things were at it's worst in Italy, doctors there flat out said that the biggest reason they had so many deaths what that they couldn't treat everyone -- they had to pick and choose who got treated and who was sent home to die.