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many people have beloved family members who are older than 60. even if you are young, the symptomatic infection can be very severe and disabling for a week or t
by nyolfen 7y ago
many people have beloved family members who are older than 60. even if you are young, the symptomatic infection can be very severe and disabling for a week or two. it's also extremely contagious.
> especially not since lethality goes down with spread
there is no guarantee of this
- hnarn 7y agoHow is any of this different from seasonal flu? It's also potentially lethal for the older population and can also knock you out for a week or two. I'm not disputing that flu viruses are bad, I'm just pointing out that the mass hysteria that seems to be brewing is not based in facts.
- feanaro 7y agoBecause the flu is simply much less lethal than this.
- edanm 7y agoWell, even if it's only as bad as the flu, what we're talking about is "remember that thing that kills hundreds of thousands every year? We're now going to double that number for the foreseeable future". Unless of course we manage to stop it from spreading further (which seems unlikely at this point but possibly worth trying anyway.)
- nyolfen 7y agoit's much, much deadlier and more contagious than the flu, there is hardly any research into treatment, no vaccine and no herd immunity. if this gets into serious exponential takeoff, which seems increasingly likely, we're talking about potentially millions of deaths. even if you're at low risk of death, you probably know a few people that aren't.