“Just wondering. What will be the result of letting the virus just run its course, like a seasonal flu ?”
The worry is a having a huge bulge of people needing ventilators and intensive care all at the same time. That’s the recipe for deaths.
If the bulge can be spread out, “flattening the curve”, then there’s enough beds and medical personnel to handle the patient load.
The danger with the Covid virus is how fast it can spread. Its close cousin SARS only infected 8,800 hundred people total over maybe 10 months. This thing had infected 82,000 by March 1st. It’s 10 times as infectious.
Covid-19 is not as lethal as the 2003 SARS, but it can overwhelm medical systems with sheer numbers of patients needing hospital care all at the same time.
That is it.
Thanks, that makes sense. I wasn’t sure why the response to this was so extreme when other diseases were far more lethal.