@MagpulPony
Although apparently it is much more deadly than I thought. Sorry. I think the 0.9% mortality rate in the article below seems fairly accurate, although it depends on how many people get it and swamp the healthcare system.
This.
But yeah apparently with the exponential nature of this I guess it has to be curtailed early to actually curtail it in the first place. Still seems a bit ridiculous… But yeah, really fuck the government and the media, because it’s their own fault we don’t trust them in the first place. They lie about so much already. It’s the same reason people don’t believe in climate change or pollution.
Also, apparently the biggest thing with this virus that affects the mortality rate is how many people get sick and go to the hospital at once. The system’s capacity to deal with sick people is a major factor. In wuhan when everybody got it at once, they were swamped and the mortality rate was as high as over 3.4%. Meanwhile in the rest of China the mortality rate is only 0.4% or less, because people didn’t get it too fast. So yeah it’s probably only a couple times deadlier than the flu if people don’t get it too fast, but if everyone gets it at once it will be 20 times deadlier. So I understand the situation more now. It pisses me off that the mainstream media doesn’t explain it simply and factually like that though. Instead, most of them tell people to just stay home as much as they can, and that it will kill “many people” without explaining the exponential nature of the infections or how the mortality rate goes up if we all get it at once.