“Honestly, unless you are really old or have issues, almost everyone survives this virus.”
Yep.
My wife has a compromised immune system, she got the virus and beat it.
A week after coming out of quarantine, I got the virus and beat it.
IMO, outside the nausea I had, I’ve had worse cases of the flu.
R Nought (RO) tells you the average number of people who will contract a contagious disease from one person with that disease. It specifically applies to a population of people who were previously free of infection and haven’t been vaccinated.
For example, if a disease has an R0 of 18, a person who has the disease will transmit it to an average of 18 other people. That replication will continue if no one has been vaccinated against the disease or is already immune to it in their community.
The R0 for COVID-19 is a median of 5.7, according to a study published online in Emerging Infectious Diseases. That’s about double an earlier R0 estimate of 2.2 to 2.7
The 5.7 means that one person with COVID-19 can potentially transmit the coronavirus to 5 to 6 people, rather than the 2 to 3 researchers originally thought.
The new strain emerging in Britain designated B.1.1.7 is reported to be 50%-70% more transmissible and raises the RO by 0.4-0.7 points so now you're looking at an RO of 6.1-6.4.
It's probably important to mention that no two scientists seem to agree on what the actual Covid R Nought is because they don't know or don't want to say.
I think it's probably contagious enough to reach every person on earth eventually if left unchecked. So let's say it has a 0.5% mortality rate. 0.5% of the US population would be almost 5 million dead Americans. That's not something to be poo pooed IMO.
If you want to talk about conspiracie theories-there it is. We have a virus that was likely produced ina Chinese lab released upon the earth which has the potential to wipe out 09.5% of the earths population. Oh and it's mutating so who knows what we'll be looking at next year. We have people that thought a computer coding glitch was going to cause the complete meltdown of western civilization back in Y2k who are now convinced this is some kind of a joke. It's mind boggling. Oh, and here comes your government to confiscate your firearms-right on time.