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| Topic | Mandatory quarantine camps being set up in New Zealand! |
| Unbridled9 10/30/20 11:21:12 PM #15: | Corona virus isn't deadly, but it is INFECTIOUS. That's the problem. If it could be easily contained and could only be spread by contaminated drinking water (as a hypothetical example) but nothing else about it changed this virus wouldn't even be worth reporting. If the virus has a 1% chance of being lethal then it's not really TOO big a concern if you catch it (especially if it requires other things to get to that 1%), but if you have, say, 1,000,000 cases that's 10,000 dead! The real problem is that our pathetic brains are really bad when it comes to large numbers, scale, and the like. We hear a number like '1,000,000 dead worldwide' and imagine people keeling over in streets while ignoring the 30,000,000 recovered or the fact that the world population is 7,800,000,000. Even if Coronavirus was 10 times as deadly as it is now it wouldn't be enough to drop the world population by .1. Even when you scale it up and assume EVERYBODY in the world catches it you're still looking at barely a dent in the global population. The problem isn't it's lethality. The problem is that it spreads so easily and a person can be a spreader without realizing it. --- I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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