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The nice thing about viruses (although maybe not that nice considering we're talking about death) is that as fatality goes up, infectivity generally goes down.
by xmprt 5y ago
The nice thing about viruses (although maybe not that nice considering we're talking about death) is that as fatality goes up, infectivity generally goes down. Also the virus will also quickly burn through the infected population and so it won't have as many opportunities for asymptomatic spread like with the Coronavirus.
- ncmncm 5y agoIt is hard to generalize reliably about viruses because each one relies on a different bag of tricks to be able to work at all. It is just lucky that the fatal ones often also work fast. But measles and smallpox, for two examples, did not self-limit at all effectively, depopulating whole regions. And the ones fatal to us but not to animal carriers completely sidestep the trend, even such as it is. A future strain of SARS hosted in animals can probably be counted on to sidestep that trend.