Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is

Re:Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is by scottlocklin on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:38PM (#22476736)

There's no question that quarantines prevent the spread of disease: there is plenty of question as to whether the disease justifies it; including in the cases of SARS and MERS.

For example: most new flus come out of China due to their agricultural practices; building a wall around China until they change the practices and isolating people in the rest of the world population who get it would actually remove the flu from the human experience. I believe flu killed 60,000 people in America last year. Are we ready to do that? Should only take a couple of years!

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Re:Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is by udkyo on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:59PM (#22478660)

SARS and MERS killed ~1 in 10 and ~1 in 3 of the people who contracted them.

If a contagious disease with a 34% mortality rate don't justify containment. What does?

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Re:Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is by Jwarder on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:54PM (#22477585)

If given the choice between modern disease control and a wall I would choose modern disease control.

Your example of the flu is interesting. If humanity had modern resources to fight the ur-flu would it be worth the effort? How many lives would be saved over the generations if the flu hadn't become a common threat?

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