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Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62
Anthony, if people would bother to research SARS, they would find SARS has a 10% mortality rate. COVID-19 has NOT reached this mortality rate on average. MERS is three times more lethal than SARS(34-36%). WHY would FACTS, readily available FACTS trigger an argument?
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I am not going to get into back and forths with anyone on this, as a personal choice. As an exception, I must respond with this, then I let the rest of you debate if Corona is a worthy topic of discussion or not.
IMO and others, mortality rate alone is not the sole determiner of how serious a Pandemic is. Fatality rate, combined with the attack rate or infectibility determine the degree of the epidemic. Either alone is not a component that one can base a conclusion on. They work together. An example is Ebola. Pretty deadly and not as transmittable as other viruses.
I also recognize I am no expert and to come on here and say "this is the way it is" is wrong. I will continue to post info. Also, as an FYI, I have been reading on this hours a day, so not sure who your people not bothering to research are, but I just worry about myself and my research. So if that was a dig at me, again, whatever, it is all good. You seem angry and I hope you get over that, if the case. Maybe I am wrong.