Posts by bellew@fosstodon.org
 (DIR) Post #9t6oBlquv8oAANkZg8 by bellew@fosstodon.org
       2020-03-17T15:40:20Z
       
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       @Gina: stop with herd immunity you need 60 to 70% of a population to get the disease. Currently, it kills about 4% of those infected. In a city of 10 million you would need 7 million infected, and 280,000 people dead. That is one city, there roughly 48 cities with pops from 5 to 10 million. Cut the dead count in half and 6.7 million would die in those cities (140k *48).Who is comformtable with those numbers? I'm not.
       
 (DIR) Post #9t6qWiUIpFdXijHudc by bellew@fosstodon.org
       2020-03-17T15:59:38Z
       
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       @Gina: doing what they are doing finding a vaccine. This is a coronavirus, the same family as the cold and influenza, we have vaccines for influenza, and we'll need one for this because it'll go dormat eventually and then come back.Read this: https://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming?utm_source=pocket-newtab