Originally Posted by
chuboy
We know the majority of people get better big-brain, the problem is that collectively we don't have the capacity in our hospitals to care for the ones who don't. If you don't limit the spread then being "in the minority" is a death sentence, simple as that.
There's no proof people can't catch it twice. There's no proof the virus won't be latent in your body for decades after getting better and then kill you one day like the measles can. There's no way to even predict whether you're likely to be in the minority who get sick as many sick/old have made an apparent full recovery.
You're just plain wrong if you think COVID-19 is nothing new. Nobody alive has seen anything anything like it.
Everybody has seen a Covid-19 type virus, it is called influenza and WHO estimates kills 650,000 people per year and even then that likely a significant underestimate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/....+Lancet.+2017
Viruses killing thouands are not new because TB is estimated to infect 10 million plus people a year with 1.3 million dying and a mortality rate of 3%. As it is not a 1st world disease unless an outbreak close to a media station it is ignored.
US CDC estimates flu season in the US has 40 million infections per year with circa 60,000 plus deaths in a normal year but because the data is not fully recorded and someone dying on cancer who has flu can be recorded in either or both or something else.