crissindahouse said:
I believe he isn't fearful anymore because most countries have only a few cases and only a few got hit hard yet. But most countries got hit only the last few days which doesn't tell us anything yet about how it will look like in a week or a month. |
Looking at the spread outside of China:
Exponential growth despite all efforts to quarantine the chain of infection as soon as a new case has been found. At some point we won't have the resources anymore to find, test and quarantine all those that have been in contact with someone with the virus. Atm the spread across Europe still has the benefit of each country having all their resources available to try to stop it when a case is found. But it's obviously not enough to slow this thing down.
In China it has been going down due to the drastic isolation measures the chinese government employed. Here in the west nobody is willing to go to such lengths and we simply do not have the resources to test everyone crossing the border. We can't even test everyone coming from infected areas.
But maybe he's not worried because he's young and the death rate under age 40 is 'only' 0.2%, 499 out of 500 under 40 will survive. Your grand parents, make amends, 15% chance they won't survive if they catch it.
