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Those hoping to draw lessons from this should be aware that folks who contract smallpox had a relatively large chance of dying, ranging from 30% to as high of 7
by jnmandal 7y ago
Those hoping to draw lessons from this should be aware that folks who contract smallpox had a relatively large chance of dying, ranging from 30% to as high of 75% for certain strains. It is assumed weaponized form of smallpox would be highly lethal. Meanwhile COVID-19 seems to have a lethality ranging from 1-3%.
- RobertRoberts 7y agoI made comments about being logical about corona virus and I got down voted into oblivion. This disease has never been about lethality, but about panic. I am not sure if it's just good for the mass media to have a panic to discuss, or if it was a concerted effort by some to make it a panic.
- jesseryoung 7y agoA fatality rate of 1-3% is actually quite high. This is significantly higher than the seasonal flu[1]. Sure, it's not as deadly as other pandemics, but still - if the numbers are correct, if you contract COVID-19 you are more likely to die to it than you are to get in a car accident sometime in your life and die from that[2]. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-mortality-rates-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-... [2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/ https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
- RobertRoberts 7y agoSure, but Ebola is way, way worse, and it was all over Africa for awhile a few years back (IRC) and it even got to the US, and hardly a peep of panic about it. I think we are going to find out in the next year that half the people that were infected were false positives just like many other scares produce. (like HIV)