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Originally Posted by iloveicedhockey
But it's a new virus, on top of the flu. If they can keep a handle on it, billions of dollars will be saved and millions of lives. If they can't contain it then yes cold and flu season becomes cold, flu and covoid season but when 1-2% is applied to millions/billions of people, those are deaths every year that haven't happened before. Your argument seems to be its a crock but if it's not, that it's ok because old people will die and you aren't old. Christ.
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Containment seems unrealistic. History has shown that even if a country cuts off all international travel, that will only add some extra months, and people are too stupid/lazy to wash their hands properly regardless of how worried they are. The latest predictions I've seen have about 40%-70% of world population catching it. Of course most people get only mild symptoms and never realize it was corona.
What they're doing is buying time and hoping someone can develop a vaccine fast enough to make a difference this season. Plus slowing the spread of the disease helps countries prepare and stops the epidemic from blowing up everywhere at once, which would create medication shortages.
The consensus prediction at this point is also that this WILL become a new seasonal epidemic. However, it's unlikely to be as deadly or as contagious next season, as people will have at least partial immunity.
What I'm personally worried about is that I have tickets to Flames@Rangers and Flames@Islanders about three weeks from now. First time I'd get to see the Flames live, a dream I've had for over a decade, one that I thought would never happen because it's a rather extreme financial commitment for someone with my income...
If there's a travel restriction or the games are cancelled, I'm seriously going to lose it.