A few percent is a lot. World War II killed 3% of the human population, and that's where we're headed if we don't stop it.
The coronavirus, in a single country, has killed 5% of infected people and elder people or those with pre-existing conditions are majorly overrepresented in infection rates.
>World War II killed 3% of the human population, and that's where we're headed if we don't stop it.
This isn't just wrong. It's irresponsible for you to be saying these types of absolutely incorrect things.
I'm not sure how you think how critical it is. I personally have never had this issue and do not mind at all to lay still for a whole year to try to reduce the risk of this happening.
Unless all the people you love are over 80 (in which case the chance of them dying before Corona hit was not much less realistic than it is now) that sentance is just completely false.
Why spread such fear and misinformation?
Unless none of the people you love are over 70, that sentence is completely true.
Yes, killing 5% of infected people is serious, especially when viruses of a similar family regularly infect 20% of the population, and the population has no inborn resistance to this partical virus, and it is, provisionially, more infectious than similar viruses.
Simple models suggest we'll have 500k deaths or so by 2021. Of course, it could be less than that, but it could also be more. It's almost certain we'll end up with some days with a 9/11 worth of deaths; it's just a question of whether that's a few days or for months on end.
You're fearmongering, and it's bullshit.
Additionally, for someone calling others' claims bullshit, your numbers have no correspondence to reality. In Wuhan, the 3% number was for the general population; for the 70+ age range, it was ~20%.
In almost all examples in human history, whenever a disease stopped, it was either because it burned through most of humanity, or because people decided to make it stop. They don't stop themselves.
You're pretending we live in the 1400s. We don't.
You're pretending we will take no measures to control this at all. That's simply not the case.
the US gov't has spent the last 1.5 months doing nothing to contain this at all. ending flights from europe isn't going to do anything to help if they aren't testing people and preventing spread inside the country
We are testing people, and we are doing quite a bit to prevent spread inside of the country and out.
[1]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa-coronavirus/