To be honest, it depends on how it is transmitted.
There have been stories from China implying the virus is ingested, not something you get breathing it in, as many "asymptomatic" folks would have diarrhea or some other stomach bug symptoms early on, feel fine the next few days, etc, and then get really sick. And if you know anything about how stomach flu is transmitted, you know somebody isn't washing their hands after visiting the toilet (whichever direction it's coming out). This means the virus was likely transmitted right at the start when the stomach bug part happened there.
This means that all the garbage could have been avoided by telling people to wash their hands. You're not going to fix this with masks or lockdowns. You fix it by washing your hands. Even if you don't know if there's a bug going around.
And even then...this thing for the vast, vast, vast majority of people, is a cold or flu bug that is no more severe than any other cold or flu bug. Funny how the flu has magically disappeared over the past year.
It's not ebola. It's not the bubonic plague, it's a cold bug with an occasional allergic reaction that has viable treatments available. And it's seemingly getting "weaker" to enable it to transmit more effectively. This is why people call it a "hoax". The virus is real. The response was the hoax.
To be honest, it depends on how it is transmitted.
There have been stories from China implying the virus is ingested, not something you get breathing it in, as many "asymptomatic" folks would have diarrhea or some other stomach bug symptoms early on, feel fine the next few days, etc, and then get really sick. And if you know anything about how stomach flu is transmitted, you know somebody isn't washing their hands after visiting the toilet (whichever direction it's coming out). This means the virus was likely transmitted right at the start when the stomach bug part happened there.
This means that all the garbage could have been avoided by telling people to wash their hands. You're not going to fix this with masks or lockdowns. You fix it by washing your hands. Even if you don't know if there's a bug going around.
And even then...this thing for the vast, vast, vast majority of people, is a cold or flu bug that is no more severe than any other cold or flu bug. Funny how the flu has magically disappeared over the past year.
It's not ebola. It's not the bubonic plague, it's a cold bug with an occasional allergic reaction that has viable treatments available. And it's seemingly getting "weaker" to enable it to transmit more effectively. This is why people call it a "hoax". The virus is real. The response was the hoax.