I think you need to read up on your history.
I don't recall any such information.
There's people on this site of all different ages, who grew up in all sorts of different places. How do you know what their high-school history covered?
In my school, history was mandatory in the first year of high-school, and I think it might have been in the second year as well. Hardly anyone did it as a subject for the remainder of their high-school years.
Needless to say, the content taught in those first 1-2 years barely even scratched the surface of historical topics.
Even if you didn't, I've noticed it in practically all possible media hundreds of times in all possible topics.
There’s so many topics that can be covered in high-school history classes, and so little actual aggregate time for those classes - why would you expect those topics be amongst them?
Also, why do you think that criticising such history classes, and the country they're in, somehow negates the point i made?
I don't enjoy your snark, I think this is a very serious issue!
But whatever doctor, like any coronavirus, hygiene and good considerate practices will help.
The mortality rate is still around 2%-ish and hugely dependent on the health condition of the patient at time of contracting.
Its annoying, its serious and it's spreading for sure. But it is not Armageddon-scale unprecedented contagion.
If nothing else this is shaping up to be an event which will define a generation before it's all over.
Spanish Flu might have killed 100M but that doesn't affect me. This thing does.
Spanish Flu has an R0 of about 2[1]. Current published estimates for 2019-ncov are 2.3-3.8 for this paper [1] and there's another floating around which gets as high as 6-8.
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19545404/
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
Look at the rate of spread in Korea and Italy recently. Where numbers aren't being cooked like in China. 3 weeks from first infection to Nationwide pandemic. Unprecedented.
This is the first time something so virulent has struck humans living with this kind of density. This will have massive ramifications for global geopolitics because it will show the weakness of centralizing production in third world countries and becoming dependent. Rumors abound in china about elites, professors, researchers, lawyers speaking out against the government. 2500 of them allegedly signed a petition demanding free speech. This virus will test the resilience and ingenuity of the human race.
Unprecedented.
Until all labs, equipment and experts are reassigned from whatever they are doing to finding a vaccine or cure, humanity is far from 'maximum response'.
Assuming that world leaders are working in the best interests of their populations, that leads me to believe that whatever these experts and labs are currently studying is considered more important than this. Or to say it another way, world leaders have decided the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to persuade these experts and labs to switch to studying this virus isn't worth the money. Which means those leaders believe that either the virus won't hit pandemic levels, or if it does, the economic impact will be less than hundreds of millions of dollars.
Surely they are reading all the available literature that has been published, they would be poor experts if they weren’t keeping up with the hottest topic in their field in like forever.
You should get them to come here and do an informational, break down some of the more specialized technical information, about how the virus behaves, attacks, etc. clearing up any confusion the technically minded, lay virologists among us.
As an example, there is currently the worst epidemic of dengue in South America's history right now. (3 million infected and 1500+ deaths in 2019). https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-51496280
From my minor lay person knowledge, every year there’s a decent sized (not in a good way of course) outbreak in Africa, South Asia, and/or more rarely, South America. If not multiple.
Why would you re-assign people working on those or other things that are serious?
I don’t want to put words into your mouth, but personally I know one person who essentially said because the African or South Asian issues are localized. He only cares if it’ll possibly affect him. Again not saying you are saying this.
Ebola is a virus that could be unprecedented. That's a serious killer and I am glad it is not traveling as fast as Corona.
If Ebola would ever start off in a major population center that would be an entirely different problem.