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zebatov posted...

Sorry, but a high-90s survival-rate isnt extremely deadly.

it's about as deadly as you can get while still being this easily transmissible. Much higher, and people die too quickly to spread it to other people (basically what happened with the Black Plague), plus people do much more to stop the spread, ultimately limiting its ability to affect large numbers of people. Ebola was much deadlier, but ultimately killed far fewer people during its 2014 outbreak (~11,000 over two years, out of ~28,000 cases) because it wasn't able to spread.

Covid's very much a perfect storm in the balance it strikes between virulence and lethality. The case fatality rate isn't very high, but it spreads incredibly easily, such that its low mortality rate is still more than enough for it to rack up a huge body count.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I thought we were opposed to forcing people into camps.

Provided it's for a reasonable length of time, living conditions are acceptable, and there's a concrete, justifiable reason for doing it, I don't really see it as a problem. Isolating for two weeks upon entering the region is what any responsible, law-abiding person would be doing anyway, so it's not going to change their experience by much. It just makes the irresponsible, non-compliant people easier to deal with, limiting their ability to endanger the public.

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