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Your post was going so well right up till here. It is not a natural disaster. It is not caused by the geological processes of the Earth. Moreover, unlike any natural disaster or even acts of god, pandemics like this are *preventable* if proper precautions are taken. And I'm not talking about...
That is not how you measure the danger from a pandemic. It's the mortality rate that's relevant. Not the absolute number of deaths. Not the deaths per capita. Look at the deaths per total cases. Mortality rate combined with the spread rate will tell you how dangerous it is.
Are you asserting...
Please don't be one of those who looks at the absolute numbers to make comparisons. That won't tell you anything. Look at the mortality rates instead. The numbers typically thrown around for Spanish flu are somewhere in the range of 4-10% dead. I've seen official estimates for COVID-19 at around...
Some of it is black humor. I like that part. But some of it seems to be more like an impromptu apocalypse cult with various levels of extensive irony involved.
Handwashing with soap shouldn't be THAT bad unless you're taking things to a truly silly extent. Have you been using alcohol based hand sanitiser by any chance? That stuff truly is the devil.
You're a braver soul than I am to eat that. I'm not that desperate. Currently getting my non-perishable or otherwise long shelf life protein from beans, nuts, protein bars, canned fish, jerky, eggs, cheese, and such.
But yeah, I also forked out for around a month's worth of food and holed up...
That directly implies that if/when the hospital system gets overloaded anywhere, the mortality for under 50s will start to climb towards that 1 in 7 figure. More or less.
Mostly rhinoviruses, but not always. Near as I can tell, the common cold just denotes some sort of viral respiratory infection with a vague list of typical symptoms, exact virus unspecified. Coronaviruses are included in the list of typical viruses implicated. Thus, calling COVID-19 a...
Epidemics are not natural disasters. They do not result from the geologic processes of the Earth. They can also be prevented. In this case, it could have been prevented by cracking down on bushmeat markets and enforcing better food handling. You are defending the CCP with such vehemence that I...
That's not surprising. While epidemics do happen from time to time, it has literally been around a century since the last time there was a pandemic that was this infectious and this deadly. And that was Spanish flu.
COVID-19 is actually a particularly nasty variation on the common cold. But then, the common cold is caused by a variety of viruses (mostly rhinovirus, but also coronavirus, influenza virus, etc) and so is rather imprecisely named.
More like because China can't be bothered to enforce food...