Ebola is very deadly, if not for its low transference rate it could have been on the same scales of plagues of old. All it needs to do is mutate a little more up its R0 and you'll see people wearing full hazmat suits with out any arguments.Many thanks, appreciate it. That exaplains why I thought it was 50%, it's the average.
I suppose technically we were both right but both wrong too.
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It's 3 variants. Ebola, Marburg virus disease (where the 90% number comes from) and Lassa Fever. The last one is seasonal, like the flu but with a so far 15% fatality rate. It is not a pandemic, but as @Bambooza said, one variant could do it. We just don't know.Many thanks, appreciate it. That exaplains why I thought it was 50%, it's the average.
I suppose technically we were both right but both wrong too.
Totally agree. A weaponized variant of any virus is our worst nightmare because of plausible deniability - governments, terrorist's, psycho-killers could release it and 8-10 days later we'd find out the hardway. COVID-19 is bad, I am just saying thank our lucky stars that other things have not be released. Today the human genome has been mapped, our dna data is online, really smart people can do really bad things (Ted Kaczynski aka unibomber with an IQ clocked at 167).
Many thanks for the information on the strains, I had no idea this has been excellent to learn about.
Thanks @ColdDog, as above with Vavriks kind help on the details, this is very interesting - I had no idea there was such a wide ranging a fatality rate based on factors such as variant with Ebola.
Give me a drunk thumbs up on this, but I will say it is an example. Things could be 1000x worse, so lets deal with this rationally. Every loss of life is regrettable but the bottom line is that it could be much worse. We are running a scale between .001 mortality to 100%. Weapons of the future will be this... not nukes... so gear up. That is why I am so pissed at WHO, because the world should have 0 tolerance for any county who either deploys a bio weapon or hides an outbreak. Otherwise this will become common place to manipulate economies via shut downs and sow unrest.
I fully expect it to become, eventually - hopefully because we have been able to find a reliable treatment which contracting it results in a course of medicine and bed rest. The bubonic plague used to wipe out whole villages, now it's put down with a course of antibiotics and is rarely heared about.
AND a vaccine that works, so you never actually get it, but gain the immunity as if you did. Don't hold your breath for that though, it's going to take a while to get it right no matter what a politician thinks, wants, desires, expresses, or tries to make happen faster.
yeah, it's October! Where's my vaccine? LMAO
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Best wishes to him and his staff member for a speedy recovery.
I hope they can pull it off, not for our sake but for theirs.
and theirs. Don't wish this on anyone.
His wife. "FLOTUS" is First Lady of the United States.
Oh, grief! Thanks for the info, I'm sorry about that - I read an article and it was about someone called Hope Hicks so I thought FLOTUS was their job title abbreviated, obviously not, apologies!
Indeed! But I'm not American, I have the same Queen as you. I'm just from a little colder spot, and I married a Texan who told me one day that she wanted to avoid another car getting literally lost in the snow on the driveway.... for 2 weeks. So here we are in Texas within 5 miles of the Gulf of Mexico, 21 feet above sea level, waiting for the next hurricane. I shake my head every time I think about it. But winter is nice, it lasts either 3 days or 2 weeks. Except they close the schools if a snowflake is in the forecast. That part is annoying.
