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Originally Posted by EAGLE5
Politics exists everywhere. It's like the Schwartz. Whining about it doesn't change things.
While I'm sure some people somewhere have played up the deadliness of COVID, I haven't seen it. You spread your ignorance. COVID-19 is a form of SARS.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/covid-19
COVID-19 is MASSIVELY deadlier than SARS and MERS combined. SARS killed like 800 people or so. https://www.cdc.gov/dotw/sars/index.html
MERS killed far fewer from what I gather.
But COVID 19? That shit is nasty. It has this long incubation period where it spreads rapidly. Then it kills 1.5-2% of people, but 2-3 weeks later. It's a great spreader. It fits right into the stupidity blind spot of danger sensing that many people possess. Come on, man. Think! AT LEAST 600,000 DEAD AMERICANS. |
Nothing about being ignorant, in terms of mortality rate % wise it doesn't hold a candle to SARS COVID 1 or MERS, it just happens to be way more contagious. In terms of individual risk, it's far less deadly, to a population way more deadly. At the beginning of covid-19 much of the fear was that the mortality rate would be closer to the 10% of sars covid I in conjunction with spreading far easier, thankfully that was not the case.
I never said it wasn't deadly lol
