[bird72]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavir...204800383.html

"Researchers at the University of Minnesota created a 3D map of the virus, known technically as Sars-CoV-2. They found that it has a shell of thick spikes that latch onto human cell receptors much more efficiently than Sars, another type of coronavirus that caused a smaller-scale but devastating pandemic in Asia in 2002"
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[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by bird72

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavir...204800383.html

"Researchers at the University of Minnesota created a 3D map of the virus, known technically as Sars-CoV-2. They found that it has a shell of thick spikes that latch onto human cell receptors much more efficiently than Sars, another type of coronavirus that caused a smaller-scale but devastating pandemic in Asia in 2002"
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Not to mention the mortality rate of COVID-19 is LOWER than SARS.

[bird72]

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?

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.

[hurryinhoosier62]

My point to EVERYONE is to look further than the headlines. Dr Fauci’s comments on the worst case scenario total number of fatalities of this pandemic are being lauded by the MSM as “absolutes”, when they are anything but. These forecasts are based on computer modeling. Modeling assumes certain factors. Change the assumed factors with hard data the result of the modeling changes; sometimes radically as in the overall COVID-19 death totals for Great Britain(500,000 to 20,000). For 200,000 people to die of COVID-19 before the forecasted peak of mid April, tens of thousands would have to die over the next two weeks., but this is the narrative that is being propagated by the media. The actual data from Italy and Spain do NOT suggest a death rate this extreme but people are ignoring the data and accepting the narrative. I am a coldly cynical, rational realist. I look at things based on FACTS, not emotion. IMO, emotion is affecting decision making far too much.