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To: carranza2 who wrote (153829)3/4/2020 3:54:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217549
 
Huge is indeed a term of art aka approximation but 5% death rate is enormous with highly transmissible diseases. With 7 billion people, if half get infected and 5% of the infected die, that would be 150,000,000 dead.

While half of those would be old, saving tax payers and families much needed money, the economic cost would be vast as people would avoid infection and be out of production.

World wars didn't do as much damage. Huge is definitely the right word.

For now, the economic cost is the worst effect. Just in New Zealand the economic losses are already at about $700 million in lost exports of timber, meat, tourism = equivalent to 300 lives lost at $2 million each. C2020 has killed none in NZ.

Those losses will reverberate causing downstream losses as forestry, farming and tourism workers stop buying things.

BTW what is the poison that's being sprayed around by swarms of people in hazmat suits? Huge aerosols of poison will be doing lung damage to bystanders.

I guess it's sodium hypochlorite.

It is unlikely to prevent any transmission. People talking to people, sharing food, (such as dipping chopsticks into shared bowls or talking over buffets while a lot of people each take a portion, or blowing out candles on a birthday cake) are much better transmission methods than walking on a footpath and getting virus from that. I normally don't lick the soles of my shoes. Even old men spitting phlegm in the street wouldn't get virus from the ground into my body.

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