Because the H1N1 Swine Flu was not as lethal as this one, which could kill 300,000 (not just hospitalize them) if left unchecked.
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Yeah, I notice most of the hysterical sh*t you and fellow bed wetters post is full of a lot of “could,” “may,” “might,” etc. All you guys can post is conjecture! You sound like DUmmies warning us about Globull Warming! When people question your assertions, you double down on the unverified horror stories!
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
This germ scared me. My first thought was that people were overreacting, but when I saw that it looked so much like SARS, I could see how it could create crisis emergency. What if it kills like SARS did while being as contagious as the common cold?
My first question I had to answer was, “How does it kill?” When I answered that question I knew everything and have not had a surprise since. In their first report of the virus, the Chinese doctors showed the Sanger sequencing and the homology model and released all the information worldwide.
There is a principle in epidemiology, that the deadlier it is, the harder it is to spread it (it kills the host). The easier it is to spread the less dangerous it is (it is trying to replicate and spread).
Virology is not a new science! The virology of the germ is the key to the epidemiology. We should take this seriously yes. No we need not wet the bed either.
Epidemiology is not a new science, however it is as much sociology as biology and physics. Because we use Farr’s Law and because there are computer models using calculus type equations that reliably predict the spread of a virus, there is an illusion that the principles are hard to understand and reserved only for intellectuals.
Three virological features explain what is happening, and please anyone correct me:
1) It is too much bat(or pangolin) virus! It should not even be infectious to us, but this is why the children largely are spared, and why so many are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.
2) It is a coronavirus. Those spikes are a pathway into the cell. This enables it to kill those who are genetically susceptible and those with co-morbidity as does the seasonal flu and many other viruses.
3) There is a split in the spike protein. This enables it to kill even more than the flu because it has a second pathway into the cell. Those who have a genetic susceptibility to this pathway, like the elderly and Asian smokers are in danger.
Soapy water kills it!
The soap breaks the lipids that hold the rna chain together and it disintegrates.
People do not believe this. Tell all the pooh poohing flubros and tell all the freaking-out, bed-wetting Fearpers it is true. Soapy water kills it!