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Originally Posted by blender
That's as devastating as a nuclear war.
Covid at 30% mortality would likely be the end of humanity with or without vaccines.
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I'm not an infectious disease expert, and I fully admit I could be completely wrong about this, but I've often thought that fewer people overall would have died from COVID if it had been more lethal, as counter intuitive as that sounds.
My thinking goes like this: most people who contracted COVID experienced (relatively) mild symptoms akin to a cold/flu or even had no symptoms at all, while a much smaller percentage experienced serious health outcomes including death. Consequently, it was easy for the conspiracy lunatics to ignore the pandemic, act like it wasn't a big deal, flaunt public health & safety measures (lockdowns, social distancing, masks, vaccination, etc.). All of this led to the pandemic lasting much longer than necessary, resulting in more total deaths.
So maybe if the next pandemic is more lethal with a higher percentage of people who contract the disease dying instead of experiencing mild symptoms, then it might mean there are fewer total deaths when all is said in done. In that case, will the convoy nutjobs take it more seriously and actually follow the instructions of the expert healthcare professionals?