Heres how we know that scientists and government know the death rate is far greater than 1%. NO Government would choose to shut down over a 1% or less death rate. You take precautions, try to protect the most vulnerable by maybe isolating them, but no government would shut down.

Now lets do the numbers: Here in the US lets use 300 million people for easy math. 50-60% get the virus. That is 150-180 million. 1% death rate that is 1.5 -1.8 million die. We have 3 million people that die annually from all causes. So that means that the annual number of deaths would increase by 50% for a year or two until a cure or vaccine was discovered. That is very unpleasant. But we wouldn't stop life as we know it.

So despite this false calculating of 1% by dividing deaths by total cases instead of resolved cases, scientists and medical people know the death rate is much, much higher and that is why governments are going to such extremes.

So again, lets go by the numbers. Lets say in the end, half of the current 9%. 5%. 300 million people. That is 15 million deaths. Now you are talking about numbers that you would do something as extreme as shut down our way of life.

I don't know why nobody is telling the truth. I guess they figure people can't read the numbers and don't want to panic people, which would create disruptions in food supply and all hell breaking lose. But there is an old saying "watch what people do, not what they say". In this case look at our governments actions, not what they say. The action of shutting down our way of life (and it is going to continue despite what Trump says) is simply not consistent with a 1% or less death rate. It is consistent with a much higher death rate and much bigger crisis.