Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Yeah, I posted that, because the same day he stated that the CDC DID claim that nonsense.
The next day of course he did like Neil Ferguson did and said "oh, I didn't mean that".
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!
I'm not sure how to simplify this enough for you.
James paraphrased the CDC assessment to make an obvious and frankly non-controversial point; any new, highly infectious viral disease of limited lethality will infect a large portion of the world's population before herd immunity kicks in. You scoffed then, even more amazingly, you scoff now. You appear to believe that this new disease would
not infect a large portion of the world population without effective mitigation, otherwise why are you disagreeing with James?
Your "belief" lacks any scientific merit. This is
obviously a highly infectious disease. Look at the very short time it took after escaping China to infect virtually all of the countries of the world. Look at the graph of infections in the US below, this chart covers the last three weeks,
after significant social costs have been paid to slow the spread and flatten the curve. There really is no legitimate basis to deny that the new coronavirus would (maybe will) infect a huge chunk of the people on earth, absent truly effective mitigation and some luck.
Jim