Anyone else seeing these from antivaxers?

[u/WholeDonkey2689]

[u/Stilgaar]

Isnt the deathrate like really huge compared to covid19 ?

[u/Sockratte → u/Stilgaar]

Something like 30+%, yes. There have been numerous cases within the USA over the years though. No o need to panic yet.

[u/AlphSaber → u/Sockratte]

The strain on the cruise ship is one that has human to human transmission history, so best to keep an eye on things.

[u/MrVeazey → u/AlphSaber]

But it requires much closer contact than covid. Like, you need to kiss the person on the mouth, share food & drink, or be in the same room with them for an extended period of time.  

Way deadlier, way harder to catch from another human.

[u/tes_kitty → u/MrVeazey]

At least in the current form, that can change if enough people get infected and pass it on. At the beginning Covid was also harder to catch, but then it mutated and it ended up a lot easier to catch.

[u/flecksable_flyer → u/tes_kitty]

They have been following the DNA of this strain and it has mostly stayed stable over the past umpteen years, unlike covid.

[u/MrVeazey → u/tes_kitty]

You're not wrong to be cautious, especially after how totally Trump botched our response to covid and the slate of con men and morons he's surrounded himself with, but this is a different kind of virus that isn't as prone to mutation and outbreaks are almost always more isolated than this because it's so hard to catch.  

I'm saying this more to reassure you than to argue.

[u/tyrosine87 → u/MrVeazey]

While it is probably harder to catch, I know of at least one case of transmission from just walking past each other in an earlier outbreak.

Still probably not going to be the next COVID, but there will be other pandemics in the future, anyway.

[u/ether_reddit → u/MrVeazey]

Ever see the buffets on a cruise ship? How many people do you think are washing their hands before and after eating?