hard facts bout to be dropped
China and the communist party in disarray because this thing is the most perfect virus ever and they are doing everything they can to stop it. Reported lethality numbers are fudged to avoid widespread panic which makes the general public lose all trust in the government's ability to overcome the crisis and make things ten times worse. its no pride like idiots are claiming like it was portrayed in Chornobyl tv show.
Actually, this family of viruses has between 10 and 20% mortality rate and is airborne as fuck, therefore, global panic happens every time it pops up somewhere on the globe. This strain cannot have a 2% mortality rate.
The first mistake is comparing the current number of infected with current number of diseased. Those who died got it at least ten days prior so it is the number of infected at least ten days prior to the current number of dead. Check these stats:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/Out of active cases, ~15% is critical, with severe symptoms aka death candidates. Closed cases give a better picture and there we see almost 20% of those died. So we are not talking about just another flu-like virus.
A few days ago I stumbled upon an article stating this virus can survive up to 9 days on objects, 4 days on average, it is much more resilient than influenza and damp, dark and cold climate helps it lives longer outside the body. 24 hours was clearly bullshit assumption. So far we still believe any mild disinfectant will kill it within a minute. Let's see how that fact stands in a month.
Couple that with other unique features and this virus is a good candidate to finish the Pandemic campaign. So China does what it must to contain it, even if it involves burning billions of dollars.
This will sound mad (worse than above mentioned) but unchecked unless it dies off by itself miraculously I think this virus has the potential to kill between 700 million and 1.5 billion people if it spreads globally. Spanish flu killed 2.5% of its victims, these coronaviruses are much worse. It is the modern discipline, hygiene and medicine we have to thank for. Send this back in time and disaster of biblical proportions happens.
Not sure is the number of reported cases fudged or not, China is going crazy with quarantine measures so could be true.