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When something with ~30-50% mortality starts doing a COVID there won't be room for anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people. With COVID you can get sick and live.
by ImaCake 6y ago
When something with ~30-50% mortality starts doing a COVID there won't be room for anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people. With COVID you can get sick and live. With something like ebola you get sick and die, or you go through the most traumatic event of your life. It doesn't leave a middle ground of disbelief. So I think there would be the political will for a second lockdown if our next global pandemic looks like ebola. A second COVID probably might not be scary enough though.
- erfgh 6y agoEbola does not spread as easily as COVID so a lockdown would not be needed.
- ptaipale 6y agoEbola has spread quite quickly, and there have been lockdowns to stop it.
- ImaCake 6y agoEbola infected ~28,000 people in a few African nations over the course of a few years. Knowning now just how flawed testing is for COVID in developed countries it is easy to imagine this number is understated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_ep...