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the fatality rate seems rather low, almost like the H1N1 outbreak. If that's the case, what warrants so much concern so as to have travel bans, so heavy media coverage, closure of schools etc..?

I never understood the logic. Aren't people always getting hit by the occasional illnesses like chickenpox, fevers and flus anyway? Who cares if the Cov-19 spreads all the way? Won't it just become endemic and another one of your everyday illnesses?

It's a far worse version of the flu

the world has been peaceful for too long and people love panicking and virtue-signaling over nothing

Wutobliteration posted...

the fatality rate seems rather low, almost like the H1N1 outbreak. If that's the case, what warrants so much concern so as to have travel bans, so heavy media coverage, closure of schools etc..?

I never understood the logic. Aren't people always getting hit by the occasional illnesses like chickenpox, fevers and flus anyway? Who cares if the Cov-19 spreads all the way? Won't it just become endemic and another one of your everyday illnesses?

The flu kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. You would have to be stupid to not wish we could go back in time and prevent it from being a common virus. And coronavirus is likely deadlier than the flu, not to mention there won't be a vaccine for over a year. This topic is stupid.

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Kavatar posted...

The flu kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. You would have to be stupid to not wish we could go back in time and prevent it from being a common virus. And coronavirus is likely deadlier than the flu, not to mention there won't be a vaccine for over a year. This topic is stupid.

hundreds of thousands out of millions of people. That's what happened for H1N1. That's a death rate of below 1%.
Cov19 has a death rate of about 1-3%, but we dont know if it's due to the virus itself or s***y healthcare. If you look at Singapore for instance, it had the 2nd highest infection rate, yet not a single death. Meanwhile Japan had a lower rate but deaths happened.

Regardless, if you were to be infected, chances are higher of you dying from a random car accident. And if you're NOT infected, you'd have a higher chance of an asteroid hitting you or some stranger pushing you onto the railway tracks or dying of cancer or a random stroke.

don't see what's so stupid about it.

governments are spending millions on dollars to fight a disease that has a lower fatality than our everyday fatalities in life. You should be worried about getting kidnapped, or mugged, or a random stray bullet hitting your head while you're strolling down a park.

We don't know what the transmission rate or death rate will be. What we know is that we've probably failed to contain it and it's likely to become a pandemic. Could be more harmless than the flu, could be much worse. Too late now, we're rolling the dice.

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Polycosm posted...

We don't know what the transmission rate or death rate will be. What we know is that we've probably failed to contain it and it's likely to become a pandemic. Could be more harmless than the flu, could be much worse. Too late now, we're rolling the dice.

don't we already know, based on how huge the stats are in China? It certainly can't be higher than the fatality rate posted there, since they're basing it off those who were admitted to hospitals, those who died there and those who were discharged.
Even a small baby can recover from the virus. If anything, young people are the least to be concerned about it

Wutobliteration posted...

hundreds of thousands out of millions of people. That's what happened for H1N1. That's a death rate of below 1%.
Cov19 has a death rate of about 1-3%, but we dont know if it's due to the virus itself or s***y healthcare. If you look at Singapore for instance, it had the 2nd highest infection rate, yet not a single death. Meanwhile Japan had a lower rate but deaths happened.

It's highly inaccurate to consider the total number of cases when determining death rate. Out of resolved cases so far, 8% of the infected have died. We won't know the real death rate unless it reaches pandemic levels in more countries than just China and its neighbors.

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Wutobliteration posted...

don't we already know, based on how huge the stats are in China? It certainly can't be higher than the fatality rate posted there, since they're basing it off those who were admitted to hospitals, those who died there and those who were discharged.
Even a small baby can recover from the virus. If anything, young people are the least to be concerned about it

Transmission rates can vary wildly by country depending on government response, and as Paragon points out, early numbers don't give a complete picture. You can't truly measure the case-fatality ratio until a pandemic is over and all the cases are resolved. Furthermore, some patients in China have tested positive for the virus twice, after initially being released; this raises concerns (but certainly doesn't yet confirm) that the virus could be biphasic (which would mean that it goes dormant and activates again).

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