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The current 2 strains aren't so terrible. Worse than the flu but not by a huge margin.
Problem is covid 19 has a couple close relatives we have met before with SARS and MERS. SARS has a mortality around 10% and MERS is over 30% mortality. Those particular coronaviruses are luckily not so contagious, covid 19 is. All in all humans don't have a lot of experience with coronavirus so this shit is legit concerning for anyone who has any kind of knowledge about this stuff.
The 1928 swine flu pandemic started off with a mild first strain. The second and third strains were brutal though.

No, they weren't even in contact with each other. Isolated cases. They're dropping like flies. LIKE FLIES, I TELL YA!

>This faggot trying to argue semantics

sars-cov-2 is a virus
Covid 19 is the disease the sars-cov-2 virus causes

Can someone comment this. The death rate for Italy in 2019 was 10.566 deaths per 1000 people, a 0.88% increase from 2018. If there was 60,391,000 people in Italy in 2019, it means each day died (10.566*60391000/1000)/365=1748 people per average. Probably the number was higher in winter months where there were more pneumonia and old people were weaker etc. Now the corona death count per day has been as high as 800 persons, which sounds really bad, but when compared to regular casualities, it doesn't look too bad. I wonder what the total death count today may be in Italy, when we add all other causes of death. I don't think it is much higher than the last years', Just thinking, I'm not into conspiracy theories and I've been sitting home for last two weeks in Eastern Europe.

macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/death-rate

Your son goes to a school for flys, that's unusual

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