Wuhan Virus

[Muddy]

5x less deadly then SARS, meh. Remember that around 36,000 people die a year from the flu in the US alone. People need to calm their titties.

[Aramas]

5x less deadly then SARS, meh. Remember that around 36,000 people die a year from the flu in the US alone. People need to calm their titties.

It might be less deadly, but its ability to infect is much higher than SARS. So the total death count has become higher as a result. I read a news article recently that suggested that the virus might be an aerosol virus. That makes it very easy for the virus to spread. On average, each person with the new coronavirus will infect 2-3 more. SARS individuals infected less than one person on average for each person with the virus. It's a big difference. An R0 of more than one means the virus spreads at an exponential rate.

So while the mortality rate might be lower than SARS, it can be more deadly overall. The Spanish Flu only had a mortality rate of around 2.5%, and it killed millions of people. The mortality rate for flu is generally around 0.4% if I'm not mistaken, or maybe even less.

The CCP would not be locking down entire cities containing millions of people if the threat from the coronavirus were less than that of an average flu. It just simply would not happen.