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With viruses, the more fatal they are the less they spread. Ebola is at one extreme - highly lethal, but therefore self-limiting in spread, because it is a poor survival strategy for a virus to kill its host. The common cold is at the other extreme - not fatal at all, and endemic everywhere.
This coronavirus is in the dangerous sweet spot - able to spread, and able to kill.
So the idea that it isn't all that dangerous is itself a very dangerous idea. It is extremely dangerous, as proven by the fact that it has been a deadly pandemic which has killed some 2.65million souls.
I don’t believe any of the math getting peddled right now. It’s being tailored to serve a purpose, which is to scare people into being dependent on a vaccine. The flu every year kills a lot of people, do I need to live in fear of it? No. And so far what I’ve seen from covid there’s barely any difference between it and what the flu does every year. NO vaccine is going to stop the flu, open your eyes.
My intention wasn’t to compare Ebola to covid, just saying Ebola is the type of virus I’d jump in line for a vaccine.