Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[chakkra]

RolStoppable said:

"For comparison's sake, how many people died in 2020 from the consequences of too high sugar and fat intake over the course of their lives?

I am pretty sure that the food industry is a much bigger threat to human life than the virus" 

A couple of years back a strange virus broke out in my country. Its syntoms were fever, joint pain and diarrea, but it was not lethal so no extra meassures were taken against it, so in less than two months almost everyone got it.  So after seeing first hand how fast a virus can spread I can't help but wonder what would've happened if no meassures had been taken to try to stop this one.

The point I'm trying to make is that these "low" numbers are precisely BECAUSE we haven't been able to go to a movie theater, a music concert, a sport game, a night out at the disco, etc, etc, for the last eight months, not to mention the fact that we have had to wear masks and try to avoid human contact as much as possible. I'm pretty sure things would be much MUCH different now if nothing had been done to try to slow down its spread.