Maybe it wasn’t “that catastrophic” because measures were taken to mitigate the risk.
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yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I used to think zombies were a ridiculous concept. Like just walk away briskly and youll be fine.
Then when coronavirus happened and we were being told to stay inside and keep away from eachother because everybody’s dying we saw people going out of their way to lick things in supermarkets.
Granted it wasnt as catastrophically bad as we were led to believe, but we saw how people reacted when we thought it was.
ConstantPain@lemmy.world 4 days ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Almost definitely. Im not in here trying to say its a mad hoax from China to install the NWO and cripple our economy while injecting us with the 5G or whatever the hell the conspiracy nuts were saying. I was saying we saw people deliberately going out of their way to do some stupid shit while we were at the height of the fear.
If zombies happen we’ll see the “hug a Z challenge” or people taking it in turns to stick a rotted finger down their throat or something.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Over 7 million deaths confirmed to be directly caused by covid. And that’s with states and entire countries lying about the number of covid deaths. It’s actually between 19 and 36 million if we analyze the actual total number of excess deaths.
And that was with most countries attempting to minimize people’s exposure.
I don’t really want to know what you would call a catastrophe if somewhere between 7,000,000 and 36,000,000 dead humans doesn’t qualify.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Im not saying it wasnt bad, just in the very early days they were telling us it was going to be armageddon bad. The dead outnumbering the survivors and shit like that.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
There was absolutely no point where anyone was claiming the death rate was over 50% based on actual data.
Early estimates were 10% (based on symptomatic cases) but with better testing proved to be closer to 2%. This is similar to the Spanish flu’s mortality rate.
It mutated to be less deathly from there, down to less than 0.5% for the unvaccinated. About as deadly as common flu strains.
If we had allowed it to spread in freely that could have been 350 million dead. That’s a large pile of dead people to deal with. That was the concern. It would have overwhelmed everything.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I remember back in school how they told us that jumping from the Golden Gate bridge would definitely kill you. In all that time since, I have not died from jumping off the bridge. I have never jumped off the bridge, but I have also never died from jumping off the bridge. So, now I think I was being lied to.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
All excellent points.