Kamikuza said..Yeah nah. It's also not a terribly high transmission rate (R0) -- as far as we know -- so the low numbers of infected are unsurprising.
Sure, if you enable vectors of transmission, it'll be transmitted more easily. Quarantining is a good thing.
Same as flu though.
www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm I think the issue with coronavirus is they don't know how long it lurks around for? Which is why more restrictive quarantining is a good thing.
Are you sure about that? I thought it was 2.8 versus 3.0 with SARS, and again, I will harp on about the fact that it is transmissable before the symptoms are showing, whereas SARS was only transmissable after the symptoms were showing. I.e. you could scan people for SARS and then isolate them to prevent transmission. With Covid19, its too late!
Please don't now turn around and try and tell us the mortality rate of Ebola was not that high... The reason that disease is "safe" for most of us is that it burns itself out quickly by killing the hosts quickly.
If you think the risk of this disease is no worse than the regular flu, we would not have even heard about it by now and it would be a regular variant of the flu. Instead, it had to be contained by a country that has the ability to unilaterally isolate its citizens and force them into isolation and still many of them have died. The we have the example of Italy which hasn't treated it like the threat it is, and it has gotten away on them.
Australia is no better. We have a lot of older people. We have hospitals built to cater or a small number of sick people. Letting people think that its 'just the flu' is very dangerous.
