Current Events > Pretty crazy the worlds come to a halt for a disease with a 3.7% fatality rate

(+) Yeah! (+)

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 atm

yes. 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

---

The big problem is hospitals can't keep up and ignoring it would cause more deaths. We are trying to slow the spread so he can handle the sick people.

It's not perfect but it is the least we can do.

---

death rate is low because we're doing shit to keep it low. if we weren't, it would climb, and it would get to the point where massive numbers of hospitals were overtaxed and it would climb explosively...

but yeah, keep bitching about how everyone reacts to such a low mortality rate. keep proving that most humans are complete shit at forward planning.

---

3% of 7,800,000,000 people is still 234,000,000 people dead.
---