Quote Originally Posted by Ace01 View Post
kill rate is 2% at this point (so 20x worse than common flu)- so all you can do is practice good hygiene - so alcohol is probably not a bad idea, and so is keeping you body in tip top shape to fight it if it comes to that... so punting is higher risk activity only if the other person is infected - that's no 2 way about it
The kill rate outside of china is more like 4-5%, but the reality is, its worse than that. You see, that stat you mention (2%) originates from medical workers TREATING PATIENTS. How else would the govt know otherwise? Since one can logically conclude the chance of surviving it is HIGHER if you are BEING TREATED BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS who are recording such stats, adding to that the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people if not millions now that have it, but are NOT BEING TREATED, we can assume it has to be higher than 2%. I'm guessing the real number is probably 5-6%. If everyone in Australia gets it, that means it will kill 500,000 Australians.

Thats assuming that we do our usual wanky aussie she'll be right attitude and theres no vaccine .. or one not fast enough.