What were the R naughts of those previous viruses?

We do not know the R naught of this current virus but we have estimates and what we do know is that it is much more contagious than the flu, in an exponential way, and also that it has a higher death rate of the flu. Now trying to assign precise R naught and Death Rates to this new virus we do not have all we know is that it is way worse than the flu and assigning precise numbers will not occur until we have this situation under control.

And once we have it under control most common people will stop caring about this virus, even if the researchers will still care and take it as a learning experience. This is because the common person has very little agency in the decision making process. This is the same fundamental problem with politics where an individual person has very little control of the outcome and thus the only people who do care either derive power from politics, or they treat politics like sport. What I am saying here is there is something wrong with the brains of the people who hypercare about this issue either for or against when they have very little control of the outcome. There is a point where if you are a common person you just have to do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and hope the people with power got your back and make wise decisions, you have to hope the elite make the right decisions.

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We know one more thing about this new virus. It is asymmetric with its danger risk with older population have an order of magnitude higher death rates than people who are 50 and younger. We also know it is asymmetric where certain people with certain health conditions are more likely to die. It is not an equal 2% or whatever magical number you put on this. (We really do not know if its a 2% fatality rate yet.)

Here is way out of date information (from 2 weeks ago) that makes the point I am making here in a nice bar graph.

https://www.statista.com/chart/20860/coronavirus-fatality-rate-by-age/

When things are asymmetric with death rate, who gets sick etc it is really bad for two reasons. It destroys social trust, but also it helps spread the disease further for some people may not realize they are sick yet they infect other people who get really sick and die. That is part of the tragedy of life though. I say this as a person with my own autoimmune problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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What stresses a person out is unique to them and everyone gets stressed but you can't just say you are not allowed to be stressed out by these things for that is not how the human body / brain works. Yet people want to tell other people stop being stressed out, or you need to pay attention more. This is not about stress when people do this, it is about social control and social influence of the room.

People should stop trying to do that for in the end it is treating people like objects when you do so. It does not solve the problem, it does not get rid of the stress, all you are doing is hurting each other like two hedgehogs trying to hug but they are not paying attention to each other's quills.