Oh, I think you know why.
Posted on 04/17/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When reports of a new virus circulating in China’s Hubei province first began to emerge, I was cautious about overreacting. I’ve reported on health long enough to know that just because a pathogen is new doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a crisis.
Of course, I quickly realized this isn’t just any virus. We’re currently battling a global pandemic unlike any we’ve seen in over a century.
But it’s also not the first modern virus we’ve faced. In the past two decades, the world battled Ebola, SARS and more than one major flu outbreak. Those left tragedies in their wake but didn’t cause the same level of societal and economic disruption that COVID-19 has. As a result, they can help us understand this new coronavirus — to capture how unique our new reality is, it helps to look back at similar outbreaks that threatened to upend society, but ultimately stopped short.
1. SARS and MERS: Deadly, but not easily spread
In late 2002, an emerging pathogen that likely spilled over from the animal world started to cause severe respiratory illness in China. Sound familiar? Through the first half of 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spread through 26 countries, infecting at least 8,098 people and killing at least 774.
If the name didn’t give it away, SARS was caused by a virus similar to the one that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, but it didn’t have nearly the same impact. This is in spite of having a relatively high case fatality rate of 9.6 percent, compared to the current estimate for COVID-19: 1.4 percent.
Another respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has an even higher case fatality rate of 34 percent. But it’s also led to fewer deaths than what we’ve already seen from COVID-19:
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
3. Ebola: Very severe, but hard to contract
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Three words: Presidential. Election. Year.
Also, over the decades, the country has exhibited less and less tolerance for any death and risk. Whether its war or a pandemic, the country actually believes that “one death is too many” and its destroying us.
Oh, I think you know why.
Why has the CDC redefined H1N1 into just another variety of annual flu?
Covid-19: Bioweapon with some unique characteristics
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Three more words: Orange Man Bad
RE: Why has the CDC redefined H1N1 into just another variety of annual flu?
I was not aware that they did that. Can you provide a link for this?
Three words. Obama, Obola, Ebolo.
Obama Bin Biden.
Democrats managed to scare Karen.
Because Donald J. Trump was not President of the United States during any of those outbreaks. Period. End of Discussion.
This was the Deep States Last Gasp. Launched by Communist China and taken advantage of by our Gov’t Establishment as a last chance event to try to destroy his presidency prior to Nov. 3rd.
And, once again, President Trumps Instincts and Decisiveness has thwarted their plots against him and our nation.
Gov’t bureaucrats have no experience whatsoever in dealing with a man like Trump.
Exactly. But they are liars since they won’t take that to extremes. If just one life is saved abortions, assisted, suicide and other leftist ideas would be banned.
Then let’s get rid of cars and roads. Over 30,000 a year using them.
So scum Democrats could destroy the economy.
Another three words: China. Tariffs. Payback.
Everyone knew that Ebola was never a threat to the United States.
“... the country actually believes that “one death is too many” and its destroying us.”
I get what you are saying but I question why the nation seems to have no problem at all slaughtering unborn babies.
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re: “Covid-19: Bioweapon with some unique characteristics”
Please detail for me HOW you ‘engineer’ something you can’t even see with a microscope?
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