The whole quote, in context:Sam Lowry said:You mean this guy?Oldbear83 said:You are mistaken on that count as well, Sam.Sam Lowry said:It is. That's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic.Oldbear83 said:That is not what containment means in terms of a virus.Sam Lowry said:
Containment is a geographical term. We have lost containment.
The mortality rate is a whole other issue, and it's not good either.
COVID-19 has a much lower mortality rate, for example, than either the SARS virus of 2012 or the MERS virus of 2015. Media exaggeration has, in part, come from bad math caused by invalid assumptions, as reported in the Imperial College of Medicine article I linked to above, plus other sources.
Also, the director of the World Health Organization is already on record saying that 'pandemic' is inaccurate and not helpful in describing the situation. Again, already cited above.Quote:
"Now that the coronavirus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press briefing.
"It's certainly troubling that so many people and countries have been affected, so quickly.
Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real.
But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.
The bottom line is: we are not at the mercy of this virus."
"Of the 80,000 reported cases in China, more than 70% have recovered and been discharged.
It's also important to remember that looking only at the total number of reported cases and the total number of countries doesn't tell the full story.
Of all the cases reported globally so far, 93% are from just four countries.
This is an uneven epidemic at the global level."
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---9-march-2020
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85133
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier