Why should I NOT ignore a virus with a death rate below 1.5 percent in most age groups? The video shows old people with weakened immune systems dying.
And you think "old people with weak immune systems" deserve to die? For what?
Is it true when it's an old person in YOUR family and in YOUR friends' families ? Or just the old people you don't know that you don't care about. It should go without saying here, but seems like you need to hear it, the Torah doesn't promote such a cavalier attitude about life and death, no matter the age involved.
These old people are also a risk to healthcare providers as there has been transmission from patients to caregivers, and some of the Chinese doctors who were young and healthy in their 30's died trying to treat these patients.
I posted this figure already before. See here
http://jtf.org/forum/index.php/topic,92380.msg690386.html#msg6903861.5% is a high death rate, especially for a virus that spreads MORE THAN FLU! There are two aspects to this. I'm not sure why I have to repeat it so many times. Is it that you ignore it, or you just dismiss facts you don't like?
The R0 is higher than flu. R0 is how much a virus spreads. Flu infects millions of people and this is MORE contagious than flu. In addition to that, the mortality is also higher than flu.
Do the math on that, and it means that massive numbers of people would be infected by this if left unchecked and massive numbers would die. Millions. We want to prevent millions of people dying, even if most of them will be older than 60 years old and you don't give a crap about old people dying. Even if only less than 1% of 20 and 30 year olds would die from it, we don't want them to die either if we can prevent it.
The Torah values human life, even for old people that you for some reason don't like or care about. So selfish.
Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella virus. Did you know that old people with varicella have a mortality rate of 15-18%?
There is immunity to varicella. There is also a vaccine now. Neither of these exist for covid19.
Aside from that, when children have chicken pox, you can see that pretty clearly. It's all over their face. Then you would know to keep them away from old people while they are contagious.
covid19 is spreading before people know they have it and before they have symptoms.
By the way, you remember the Hong Kong protests? Me neither. Strange, huh?
Yeah, and? That doesn't make this virus any less deadly than it is.
In fact, Milo has the virus and he looks fine to me: https://youtu.be/1mhY-CAT5r4
Anecdotal nonsense. A person in the hospital with the virus has the virus and doesn't look fine. Why would I care what Milo looks like?
It is very funny that you believe his claim of having the virus, attention wh-re that he is, but that's a separate issue. The anecdote means nothing regardless, even if it is true he tested positive.