It is at least as contagious as the common cold, but much deadlier.
A better comparison is the flu.
Flu is less contagious (R naught of around 1.5, vs Corona at 2.5+).
The flu is also less deadly for those who contract it, coming in at 0.1% mortality vs 1-3% for corona.
It is a significant and substantial difference.
Just be happy that it has not infected 60+ mil as the flu does every year.
How can I be sure the people listed as dead from corona virus actually died from it?
Are you saying I can trust the media?
Are you saying I can trust leaders in the medical profession—the ones with roots and tentacles stretching into and beyond Big Pharma, Big Health Care and Big Deep State?
“Just be happy that it has not infected 60+ mil as the flu does every year.”
And we need to keep it that way.
Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it.
Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...
And the fear mongers will try to leverage it...
Reminds me of a saying, by Ben Franklin, that many FReepers, who are now acting insane, used to showcase:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”