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Ekern55
Your premise implies the easier the contagion, the more deadly the virus. .
My "premise" implies nothing of the kind. In fact I have no clue where you would get that kind of misunderstanding from.
Just reacting to arguments that tend to downplay what this virus is.
And here are some of its unique features. It is easily transmitted--and to make matters worse, it can be asymptomatically transmitted. That obviously means people who are not yet sick or who may never get sick transmit it widely--the problem being of course if you don't know you're infected you become a much more dangerous carrier. (This whole issue is compounded by the lack of widespread testing.) That means under normal conditions (without quarantine) it travels far and fast.
People who get sick can get very sick, even though it's not a high percentage of infected people who get that sick. BUT here's the problem--if many many people get infected, then the number of fatalities climbs. So let's say only 1% of the infected get so sick it;s fatal. If 100 M people get infected, that's 1 M fatalities.
And the danger is so many people get infected that a lot of people get sick, and if that all happens in a congested period of time--which it CAN--then medical facilities are overwhelmed.
That has nothing to do with the misread you came up with, where according to you someone said the easier it is transmitted the more deadly it is. Follow the argument--no one said that.
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2020 05:13PM by zn.
