Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

John2290 said:

Nautilus said:

70%?Honestly, that's just an exageration.First, if things ever got that bad, countries would do the same as China and Italy, and would quarantine cities and such.So, it wouldn't come to that.

Secondly the population itself would start taking preventive measures, such as bringing hand sanitizers along, or avoiding public places for some time.Plus, the disease spreads through contact, so it dosen't have that much power in terms of contamination.

The biggest problem is the hospitals, with them not being able to handle.But then governments could try to shoote this part by bringing extra help, hiring doctors from other countries and setting temporary shelters to treat the infected.

Again, its a serious situation, but it's not the end of the world.I mean, if Europe survived the damn black plague during the 16th century with 0.01 of the technology we have today, I think we will be just fine.Which is why I think some of these measures are just too extreme.

It doesn't matter if its potential is 70% or 50% or 30, or 20 or even 10%. Italy has shown how much a well run health care system can take and it's an incredibly small fraction of the percentages, unfortunately. When you scale the numbers up the only out is to spread the numbers thin and across time, hence the quarantines.

No health Care system in the world could handle an outbreak that comes like this.That much is true.Dosen't mean you gotta run with it and just go crazy with it.