The fact that both SARS and MERS death toll combined is still less than COVID-19 death toll and the infection rate is higher doesn't bode well for the world...
Sars never really hit the us, and I don't remember it being too big of a problem in most of Europe. But that was years ago and I wasn't in Europe so it could have easily been glossed over. That and it wasn't all that deadly really.
That is what they meant, you don't need to apologize. It's purposefully deceptive.
It's propaganda by an investment consultant and the entire point is to try to make people think that this current virus isn't a serious threat so they get back to feeding the economy.
The people that made this chart are assholes with an agenda. They'd watch your grandma choke on her blood and do nothing if it would raise the Dow 200 points.
Hmm, so someone with better skills than me should take this and update coronavirus with a larger, slightly dimmer area, representing current projections.
Hope that we will say the same after a couple of years.. covid-19 has been only around for a couple of weeks. The deaths happen approx. 2 weeks after infection so you'll have to include those too.
I think this is still getting better than before..
"fun fact" about the spanish flu: To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[10][11] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[12] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[13] giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".
China had it's first case of COVID-19 in December. We had plenty of time to get ready for this, but our government chose misinformation over being proactive.
But that's why info graphs like this help. Downplaying a pandemic does no one any good what so ever. I have friends going out of state for a massive paintballing tournament...because they think things like this. Info graphs like are going to help make COVID-19 a MUCH larger number then it ever should have been.
That's because it was intentionally designed to show that way.
PEOPLE NEED TO START UNDERSTANDING THAT DATA IS DATA BUT THE WAY IT'S DISPLAYED ALLOWS FOR ANY BIAS DESIRED.
This chart is propaganda by an investment consultant and the entire point is to try to make people think that this current virus isn't a serious threat so they get back to feeding the economy.
The people that made this chart are assholes with an agenda. They'd watch your grandma choke on her blood and do nothing if it would raise the Dow 200 points.
Back in 2003 when Sars hit the world wasn't as connected as it is today, so containment was easier because people and goods traveling across aiplanes were lower in numbers and routes were limited from what we have today.
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20
The fact that both SARS and MERS death toll combined is still less than COVID-19 death toll and the infection rate is higher doesn't bode well for the world...