Millions of people have become overnight germaphobes. You could probably scare them even more by telling them how bacteria is becoming more resistant to most anti-bacterial soaps (and I'm wondering how much of that is just fearmongering now).
Then there's people who live with the elderly who are afraid of getting their elders sick. Hasn't this always been a risk with influenza though? Is everyone under 50 supposed to change their entire lifestyle so that people who live to be 80 can live to be 81?
If it behaved like a SARs (10%) or MERs (30%) with respect to mortality than ya everyone under 50 should have stayed locked in place. If it had those kinds of mortality you would see 1 out of every 30 40-year olds dying. That was the initial fear. But its utterly stupid to have shut down everything without first stopping all air travel, bus travel, and public transportation.
No, but this seems extra deadly to the elderly. People already stayed away from their elderly relatives if they got sick, they would've just been more cautious with this until it blew over.
Millions of people have become overnight germaphobes. You could probably scare them even more by telling them how bacteria is becoming more resistant to most anti-bacterial soaps (and I'm wondering how much of that is just fearmongering now).
Then there's people who live with the elderly who are afraid of getting their elders sick. Hasn't this always been a risk with influenza though? Is everyone under 50 supposed to change their entire lifestyle so that people who live to be 80 can live to be 81?
If it behaved like a SARs (10%) or MERs (30%) with respect to mortality than ya everyone under 50 should have stayed locked in place. If it had those kinds of mortality you would see 1 out of every 30 40-year olds dying. That was the initial fear. But its utterly stupid to have shut down everything without first stopping all air travel, bus travel, and public transportation.
No, but this seems extra deadly to the elderly. People already stayed away from their elderly relatives if they got sick, they would've just been more cautious with this until it blew over.