JRPGfan said:
John2290 said:
What? 10% of the worlds population is near 800 million people. 1% is 80 million people. Is it infects at the WHOs estimate it's at least 45 million people you are just going to through to the wind and fill mass graves with... what? So we can go on wth daily life and set all our integrity and moral good aside, this will and should never happen. What would be the point if you're going to let your neighbour or grand parents or the pregnant women with a child on the way be put in mortal danger? Can you really live with that so we don't experience a bit of hardship for a time?
What are you suggesting exactly because I don't want to put words in your mouth, lay out your view of how this should be handled with a 1% mortality rate and at least 50% infected globally, being conservative. Please.
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Marc Lipsitch from Harvard University, a expert on virus, claims that we could see as much as 40-70% of the world to get infected.
~7.8 billion people live on this planet.
If 70% of them get this, and 2% die due to it..... thats still like ~156 million people dieing.
"So we're gonna lose 10% of the world's population, most of which will be people who wouldn't have survived for long anyway. Now what? You think that will bring some sort of collapse of society?"
The world keeps spinning, and doesnt care about people dieing, so why should you? am I right? (sarcasm)
Thats all well and good, until you lose a family member.
Then it well and truely sucks.
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And to put things into perspective again, 75 million people lost their lives in WW2, but that's just a footnote in history right. We did get an economic boom after WW2, there's that.
No time for panic, no time left for a let's wait and see approach anymore either. Plus who knows what long lasting effects this could have. Prevention is always better than let's clean up afterwards.
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