Physicist Says We Don't Take Covid Seriously Enough
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The excess-death numbers are unsettling -- quoted as being equivalent to two major plane crashes per day in North America alone -- and it does appear that the person being interviewed was right about a lot of things early on, despite not working in the medical field.
a lot of people had better realise corona virus has been on this planet for a long time before us, and is not going away, even if we go extinct.
this virus is gifted with a high variability, and only needs to reassort with an upstart variant like MERS for a nasty rekoning
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