Are car accidents contagious? If you crash your car, do two other cars crash? If they did, we'd certainly lock things down.
> I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter).
Good lord. Last flu season, 35 million Americans got the flu and 34,200 died. We have 1.3M confirmed Covid cases so far and 78k deaths (the real total of both is surely much higher). If that 6% CFR is 5x too high due to mild cases that haven't been counted and we made it to 35M infected, we'd have over 400,000 dead.
I'm getting the strong feeling that we're going to find out exactly how deadly this thing can be since people are so ignorantly dismissive of how serious we should be taking it.
> I'm not saying we should not be doing anything, but we have existing protocols to deal with respiratory epidemics, which are not a new thing at all (they happen every winter).
Good lord. Last flu season, 35 million Americans got the flu and 34,200 died. We have 1.3M confirmed Covid cases so far and 78k deaths (the real total of both is surely much higher). If that 6% CFR is 5x too high due to mild cases that haven't been counted and we made it to 35M infected, we'd have over 400,000 dead.
I'm getting the strong feeling that we're going to find out exactly how deadly this thing can be since people are so ignorantly dismissive of how serious we should be taking it.