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| Topic | Pretty crazy the worlds come to a halt for a disease with a 3.7% fatality rate |
| averagejoel 08/12/20 7:53:15 AM #51: | Ballinari posted... Maybe I'm a dummy here but wouldn't a deadlier disease often times slow down infection rates since the disease will kill their hosts generally before they can spread it to other people? Like in your Ebola example, it kills things far too quickly for it to spread all that much. That's a main reason why it's not too widespread atmyes. this is absolutely correct. if a disease kills the host, it doesn't spread nearly as quickly. even your hypothetical supervirus would likely not kill as many people as a highly contagious, but not-very deadly disease. the issue is not that covid-19 disease is particularly deadly (though 3.7% is, in fact, very high); it's that a lot of people get infected, so a lot of people die --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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