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Oh you enjoy being dramatic as always, Pav.
What we know is that it's a SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus, which is a family of viruses that is called a Corona virus, of which the common cold is a member. Researchers have known for a long time that viruses originating in bats can be lethal to humans. SARS and other viruses from bats can have a 10% mortality rate and are bad because once it infects a human host, can be transmitted from human to human at a rate of 20% or so. What they are calling Covid, Covid-2 etc seems to have a mortality rate of less than 1% worldwide. It seems to have been a factor in around 2 million human deaths. All of these mortality rates include people who have a health history which may make mortality an indirect result of the virus, and people who have no health history and therefore mortality is a direct result of the virus. All of these cases are lumped together for lack of full analysis. History may therefore never be able to have clean statistics relating to mortality rates. In any case, all studies take time and we are at a 2-year timeline from the virus breaking out into the human population, and therefore we do not fully understand all there is to know about it. We also know that in the past 24 months it has taken on more snippets of human genetic sequences and therefore has become less bat-associated and now geneticaly recognized as more human related. That is one of the biggest reasons for it being far less severe, and more recognized as now more "flu like" in it's symptoms. These outbreaks, including SARS 1, Covid, and Ebola etc have an arc. This is no exception. If that triggers you, then oh well sorry. Not sorry. And BTW Ebola was far more lethal, just far less transmittable.
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