Posted on 03/11/2020 9:09:21 PM PDT by Mariner
The word pandemic refers only to threatening the infection no matter how virulent or harmless it may be.
The word is being used by the Fake News to destroy the economy and hurt Trump!
Mass hysteria is a powerful, dangerous thing! Sad so many people who should know better are falling for this media hype!
The virology precedes the epidemiology. The nature of the germ explains its behavior, its pathogenicity and spread. I had my introduction to virology studying the Spanish flu. Spent several years reading all I could even microfilm newspapers of the era. When the novel corona virus appeared, my first question was, “How does it kill?” The answer to that told me everything.
Don’t forget viral load.
True.
If you’re in the elevator just after someone who’s infected...
Not a killing weapon I think, though deaths will accumulate. More a bioweapon to destabilize a society’s financial and medical structure. Like in WW2 both the Germans and Japs developed landmine designed to.maim not kill. Taking three or more men out ofvthe fight and overburdening the medics and corpsmen. And unlike oh anthrax or ebola this can e passed off as a natural development.
Ok...a bioweapon that kills.
Better?
Agree with your post, btw.
d":^)
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