Yep. Thunderf00t did a video on the power of net infectivity rate as dominating the outbreak irrespective of mortality rate. Infection can be most basically mo

Yep. Thunderf00t did a video on the power of net infectivity rate as dominating the outbreak irrespective of mortality rate. Infection can be most basically modeled by an ordinary diff eq. And what happens is when everyone knows about it, the infectivity drops off a cliff and the illness reaches a carrying capacity rather quickly and dies out with good sanitation and quarantines. It could be Ebola-deadly and it still dies out because the transmission rate drops to almost 0. Because of self-preservation and global news, a modern pandemic would only work if it were like Hepatitis C and norovirus: very long incubation period and airborne.