Guest post by Martin Armstrong
Your chances of dying from omicron are extremely low. Around 0.1% of people pass away from the seasonal flu each year. I found a well-sourced document that shows your chances of dying for other activities. You’re far more likely to die on your drive to obtain a COVID test than from the actual virus.
The mortality rate for specific activities undertaken in the United States:
- Mountaineering Mortality rate: 0.5988 (/100 participants)
- Hang gliding Mortality rate 0.1786 (/100 participants)
- Parachuting Mortality rate: 0.1754 (/100 participants)
- Boxing Mortality rate: 0.0455 (/100 participants)
- Mountain hiking Mortality rate: 0.0064 (/100 participants)
- Scuba diving Mortality rate: 0.0029 (/100 participants)
- American football Mortality rate: 0.0020 (/100 participants)
- The Risk of Hiking and Mountain Climbing
- Expert mountain climbers: Annual mortality risk of 1 in 167.
- Recreational climbing – Annual mortality risk of 1 in 1,750.
- Mountain hiking – Annual mortality risk of 1 in 15,700.
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