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But because Covid was novel Do you think the fact that it was orders of magnitude more fatal and transmissible had anything to do with it, or do you truly thin
by JohnBooty 3y ago
But because Covid was novel
Do you think the fact that it was orders of magnitude more fatal and transmissible had anything to do with it, or do you truly think it was just the "novelty" factor?
- anononaut 3y agoWrong thread.
- JohnBooty 3y agoThere are a lot of controversial aspects to COVID-19 that are perhaps best avoided on HN, but the assertion that it's far more dangerous than the common cold is hardly a controversial statement.
- mcpackieh 3y ago> orders of magnitude more fatal Really? From what I understand the IFR for covid without vaccination was somewhere in the range of 0.5% to maybe 1%, versus the flu at 0.1%. 10x worse; that would be one order of magnitude. That's for the normal flu, the Spanish Flu was much worse than either, about 10% e.g. two orders of magnitude. At three orders of magnitude you're already talking about near certain death.
- JohnBooty 3y agoApologies, but I'm certain you've misread the parent post to which I was responding. They wrote: Another example: Covid. It's a coronavirus. Know what else is a coronavirus? The common cold. But because Covid was novel [...] They explicitly (and rather unbelievably) compared COVID-19 to the common cold, not the flu.
- mvkel 3y agoI didn't say novelty. I said novel, which has a specific definition