Post by bluerisk on Apr 21, 2020 17:04:56 GMT
Of course this is just the first wave.
Well, Norway is a rather small country with great wealth reserves, but most European nations will fall into a deep depression, and poverty kills too.
And the most people who died, or whose lives has been saved so far are people who would have, or will die within this year due to their severe medical preconditions.
We won next to nothing, but the loses will be staggering. Aside how easy most fundamental rights have been forfeited due to pure speculations.
One can give a flu or cold virus a new name, and declare its properties and potential risks as unknown, and use it as an excuse to totally by-pass our constitution and the rule of law - like in a bad Hollywood movie.
SARS was a SARSr-CoV strain (related to the current SARS-CoV-2) which infected and killed less people then a regular flu...but it was SARS that went through the media...but the without this hype and massive overreaction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic#Comparisons_to_other_pandemics_and_epidemics
2019–20 seasonal flu - ongoing - infections: about 800,000,000 ; deaths 450,000 to 1,200,000
vs. Carona: infection 2,200,000 million* ; deaths 130,000
According to several studies up to 96% of all cases are unreported. Hence the true number of infection might be in the range of 50 million...still only 1/10 of the flu, but this would also correct the death rate to a far lower level.
Or the numbers of the great SARS outbreak:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome#Epidemiology
infections (Probable!): 8096
Deaths: 774
I guess most cases remained unreported what led to a death rate of almost 10%.
Sweden does it right.