Gonna issue I guess, idk a weird community brag or something, but this is the first post I ever made in a covid thread (circa Jan 2020):
I mean the R0 of SARS was between 2 and 4 and the mortality rate was around 10%, but after control measures were introduced, the R0 was reduced to 0.4. R0 without any context is a little meaningless because it depends how easily control measures can be introduced. For example:
If that’s true, then it’s a massively bigger problem.
This is pretty great in that I feel not just that I’m making sense here, but everyone I’m quoting is too. Like @j8i3h289dn3x7 is pretty spot on with his numbers there. @Rugby is correct that carriers can be asymptomatic and I’m correct that asymptomatic carriers is a huge deal in terms of containing the virus (and correct in response to jman that how well containment measures work is a big issue). Zero Pinnochios rating all round.