Originally Posted by
Hubcapped
Whole lotta words to just basically say that yes, early covid was not the same as a common cold thats been established in the population already. Thus warranting measures that go beyond those used against the common cold.
middle ground folks, turn off the fear porn
It was a NOVEL organism. EVERY NOVEL organism that hits your body pretty much will be more pathogenic the first time than the second and subsequent time it hits your body. And for this one the pathogenicity was highly age related. We're most of us to be exposed to the identical organism today it would be little more than a cold - much like the four other human coronaviruses that do just cause colds - except in the elderly and high risk to whom even a cold can be fatal.