Cloud5urfer

A lot of people who want to use Korea for low mortality and Germany as examples of no deaths (it's up to 2 in Germany now) are overlooking the fact that those countries have a lot less cases resolved. Korea has 7,478 cases right now and 166 have recovered. We won't know real mortality rates until more people there die and others recover.

China has the highest number of recovered cases, and the mortality rate currently sits at 3.8% there. They also locked down somewhere near 50 million people to stop it from spreading. Measures like that here are going to hurt us as airline employees.

This is a new virus, we have no immunity, and we simply don't know how dangerous it is. The responses abroad are not media hype, and suggestions otherwise are absurd.

Real-time Coronavirus Statistics

Andy

If no one had immunity to the virus, 100% of people exposed to the virus would get coronavirus. I'll go out on a limb and say that, at the very least, some people aren't very susceptible to the virus.

atooraya

Social media will go down as one of the worst things to happen to mankind.

RJSAviator76

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This!! 1000%

Cloud5urfer

Um yes, 100% of people exposed would get it. And that's what's happening. To prevent exposure, countries like Italy and China are having to quarantine extremely large groups of people so they don't catch it, and continue to spread it.

2GoodEngines

Absolutely 100% without a doubt correct. It has done FAR more harm than good for society.

AntiPeter

Using the statistics you have provided, COVID-19 has infected .008% of the Chinese population and has killed .0004% of the Chinese Population. 77% of the Chinese cases have lead to full recovery, while 19% of them still persist.

Please read the Slate article on the tendency to overestimate the significance of viral disease when they first appear.

Even in the worst case scenario (which is unlikely), over 96% of us develop immunity to this virus. In age groups under 50, 99.8% (worst case scenario) develop immunity to the virus.

Currently in the world there are 47,000 active cases with over 7,000,000,000 population, making the infection rate so low I can not express it without scientific notation. There are currently 6,000 people in the world with a severe case of the disease in a world population of over 7,000,000,000. More people get killed my lightning in the world per year than currently have a severe case of COVID-19.

These are facts.

https://www.immunology.org/public-in...ponses-viruses

To say that we have no immunity is not scientifically accurate. Most of us have very good immune systems.

The reaction to the virus is absurd, and incredibly destructive.

Chimpy

where’s that Mic Drop Emoji when ya need it

chrisreedrules

I for one welcome our new viral overlords.

CRJJ

Amen



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