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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% of the cruise ship people with caronavirus had no symptoms...HALF.  So many people get it and are completely fine and so the mortality rate must be much less then 2%. Article in the Washington Post.[/quote]

This x 1000.  The biggest risk of this virus is that everyone freaks out and blows up the global economy.  If we all stayed calm, it will just be like another flu that is really bad initially and then just becomes a crappy part of life.  The real danger is in the freak-out which could upend our global financial systems and supply chains.  We'd be much better off washing our hands frequently, using common sense, and going about business as usual.  [/quote]

"Similarly, how many people die of seasonal influenza (or COVID-19) depends on the kind of health care they receive. In China, death rates are much higher in the overwhelmed Hubei province than the rest of the country exactly because of the quality of the care. Hospitals only have so many beds, especially in their intensive care units, and those who have a severe case of COVID-19 often need mechanical ventilation and other intensive care procedures. When they are out of beds, people end up languishing at home and suffering and dying in much larger numbers.

All this means that if we can slow the transmission of the disease—flatten its curve—there will be many lives saved even if the same number of people eventually get sick, because everyone won't show up at the hospital all at once. Plus, if we can flatten that curve, there is more time to develop a vaccine or find antivirals that help."[/quote]

https://www.livescience.com/preparing-for-coronavirus-is-civic-duty.html
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