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To: entropy12

Of the comparative disease you mention none are as contagious as Covid except TB.

And they close entire buildings over TB and isolate the infected person until they are no longer shedding.


70 posted on 03/14/2020 10:50:42 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Those diseases are less contagious than covid-19, however devastatingly more lethal, and are contagious to various degrees. The lepers are the most pitiful with their face features literally dissolving. They are shunned by family and friends and end up begging on the streets. Plague is very communicable and has wiped out large percentage of populations in various countries in the past.

On the other hand, while covid-19, like the common cold (another virus from the corona family) is very contagious but kills extremely few healthy people under age 50, children seldom die from it, older folks without existing issues of health are also unlikely to die from covid-19.

So all in all, if there was a choice, I would rather be sick with covid-19 than plague, drug-resistant-TB, syphilis, AIDS, yellow fever, Ebola or Leprosy, any time of the day.


90 posted on 03/15/2020 4:48:19 AM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to interfere with corporate issues.)
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