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The new coronavirus could circulate forever, experts say — becoming another illness in the sea of seasonal colds and flus.
Some experts say the new coronavirus will probably never disappear.
Instead, it will likely become like the flu and other respiratory viruses that constantly circulate in the human population and fluctuate with the seasons.
We are surrounded by germs and have been since the dawn of time. That's why hygiene and strengthening our natural immunity is so important. People are too lazy and want a pill for everything these days
The new coronavirus could circulate forever, experts say — becoming another illness in the sea of seasonal colds and flus.
Some experts say the new coronavirus will probably never disappear.
Instead, it will likely become like the flu and other respiratory viruses that constantly circulate in the human population and fluctuate with the seasons.
That's not a disaster, that's the normal nature of things. With every passing year there will be fewer people in the population who are highly susceptible to it, and evolutionary pressures generally push viruses in the direction of less virulence (because that aids their spread). It may be a killer now, but in several years' time COVID-19 may just be another cold: a mild disease that no one will care much about, because it kills almost no one. (For about 80% of people, a mild disease is already what it is now. in the future, that may be true for 99.5% of people.)
We are surrounded by germs and have been since the dawn of time. That's why hygiene and strengthening our natural immunity is so important. People are too lazy and want a pill for everything these days
That's not a disaster, that's the normal nature of things. With every passing year there will be fewer people in the population who are highly susceptible to it, and evolutionary pressures generally push viruses in the direction of less virulence (because that aids their spread). It may be a killer now, but in several years' time COVID-19 may just be another cold: a mild disease that no one will care much about, because it kills almost no one. (For about 80% of people, a mild disease is already what it is now. in the future, that may be true for 99.5% of people.)
Epidemiology is not a real strong suit for Trumpers.
What about the thousands of Americans that died of the flu last year?
What about them? Are you trying to play the tired old "no one cares about the flu" card? Medical professionals DO care about seasonal influenza deaths; they are why a vaccine was developed and why we keep encouraging people to get it.
COVID-19 (estimated 2% mortality rate, R0 of 2.6) is currently much more dangerous than seasonal flu (0.1% mortality rate, R0 1.3); it's potentially as dangerous as 1918 H1N1 Spanish Influenza was and has the potential to kill around 2 million Americans if as many people end up catching it as caught the Spanish Flu, which could easily happen as no one has any immunity to this brand-new virus. COVID-19 is less dangerous than yellow fever (10% mortality rate, mosquito-bourne and rarely spread person-to-person so R0 is hard to calculate), which is less dangerous than smallpox (25-30% mortality rate among Europeans, Asians, and Africans, much higher in other groups such as Pacific Islanders and Native Americans, R0 of 3.5 to 6.), which is less dangerous than bubonic plague (50% mortality rate, R0 1.3). Surprise! Different infectious diseases vary in both their lethality and their degree of infectiousness. They also differ in whether we can prevent them with a vaccine (yellow fever, smallpox) or successfully cure them with medications (bubonic plague). We have no known effective treatments for COVID-19 and no vaccine for it, which also makes this new virus of special concern.
That's not a disaster, that's the normal nature of things. With every passing year there will be fewer people in the population who are highly susceptible to it, and evolutionary pressures generally push viruses in the direction of less virulence (because that aids their spread). It may be a killer now, but in several years' time COVID-19 may just be another cold: a mild disease that no one will care much about, because it kills almost no one. (For about 80% of people, a mild disease is already what it is now. in the future, that may be true for 99.5% of people.)
It is 200 times more deadly than the common cold.
Its not reassuring that maybe sometime in the future after a lot of people have died it will kill less.
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