not very smart, what you just said. the mortality rate is important, but it's not the only thing that's important. here are some other things:
a) how infectious is it? turns out, very. more than the flu. 3% might not seem like 'a lot' of dead people to you, but what if half of our country got it? 3% becomes several million people dead. some people would consider that to be 'not a nothing burger'.
b) the people who 'recover' have been reported to have permanent disabilities, lung damage, there's even reports that it can get into your nervous system and has been found in cerebrospinal fluid. maybe these kinds of things are again a small % of the survivors, but just surviving doesn't mean you're perfectly fine.
c) it sounds pretty unpleasant to go through.
d) if the 3% does end up being of a large number (millions), the panic from that will be bad enough to cause it's own, very serious problems. kind of like what happened in china.
i agree that we shouldn't panic, but this isn't just the sniffles. the NBA never shut down because of the flu. and nobody wants to willingly sign up for a lottery where you have a 3% chance of dying. also, in italy, the mortality rate seems higher than 3%.
also, a lot of people have parents and grand parents who are older, and they still care about them and don't want them to die.
Everyone is just guessing because those with mild symptoms or no symptoms are never tested.
Based on educated guess, the rate is in the 1% range.
So you have to put infectious disease in context, Ebola = 70%, MERS = 30%, SARS = 10%
When you want to talk about those infected, 60M Americans were infected with H1N1 in 2009, 300,000 hospitalized and 12,000 dead. The whole world has about 125,000 cases of coronavirus
some people kind of are. in fact, in this very comment section with only a relatively small amount of replies, a guy actually asked in bold letters why we should worry when there's 'only a 3% mortality rate'.
But that's not "blind denial." That's simply, "Let's not buy into the fake hype on a "pandemic" that has a 3% mortality rate, and that rate is older people with already-compromised immune systems."
As a default, we assume everyone knows to wash their hands regularly and not be a dirty-butt. Reminding people to do that is ok. Screaming "OMG THIS VIRUS CAN SURVIVE LONGER THAN OTHERS THE SKY IS FALLING" does more to hurt and exacerbate the hysteria than it does to help.
This has been known for months...
the media is just trotting it out at the moment they're trying to stoke panic.
AND?
WITH THE MORTALITY RATE OF 3% (PROBABLY LOWER)
UNLESS YOU ARE OLDER, 97% CHANCES ARE YOU WILL BE FINE
not very smart, what you just said. the mortality rate is important, but it's not the only thing that's important. here are some other things: a) how infectious is it? turns out, very. more than the flu. 3% might not seem like 'a lot' of dead people to you, but what if half of our country got it? 3% becomes several million people dead. some people would consider that to be 'not a nothing burger'. b) the people who 'recover' have been reported to have permanent disabilities, lung damage, there's even reports that it can get into your nervous system and has been found in cerebrospinal fluid. maybe these kinds of things are again a small % of the survivors, but just surviving doesn't mean you're perfectly fine. c) it sounds pretty unpleasant to go through. d) if the 3% does end up being of a large number (millions), the panic from that will be bad enough to cause it's own, very serious problems. kind of like what happened in china.
i agree that we shouldn't panic, but this isn't just the sniffles. the NBA never shut down because of the flu. and nobody wants to willingly sign up for a lottery where you have a 3% chance of dying. also, in italy, the mortality rate seems higher than 3%. also, a lot of people have parents and grand parents who are older, and they still care about them and don't want them to die.
No one knows what the mortality rate is
Everyone is just guessing because those with mild symptoms or no symptoms are never tested.
Based on educated guess, the rate is in the 1% range.
So you have to put infectious disease in context, Ebola = 70%, MERS = 30%, SARS = 10%
When you want to talk about those infected, 60M Americans were infected with H1N1 in 2009, 300,000 hospitalized and 12,000 dead. The whole world has about 125,000 cases of coronavirus
PUT EVERYTHING IN CONTEXT AND STOP PANICKING.
Lol - nobody is advocating blind denial.
some people kind of are. in fact, in this very comment section with only a relatively small amount of replies, a guy actually asked in bold letters why we should worry when there's 'only a 3% mortality rate'.
But that's not "blind denial." That's simply, "Let's not buy into the fake hype on a "pandemic" that has a 3% mortality rate, and that rate is older people with already-compromised immune systems."
As a default, we assume everyone knows to wash their hands regularly and not be a dirty-butt. Reminding people to do that is ok. Screaming "OMG THIS VIRUS CAN SURVIVE LONGER THAN OTHERS THE SKY IS FALLING" does more to hurt and exacerbate the hysteria than it does to help.