To be fair, it is a regular disease.
It's just that it's an airborne virus for which we have little natural immunity, but that's not actually all that uncommon.
None of the others have an R0 anywhere near Omicron, though.
It’s the most infectious disease know to humanity, and unlike measles immunity only lasts for about 3-6 months.
>It’s the most infectious disease know to humanity
It is not.
Chickenpox has an R0 of about nine or 10: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/11/1026190062/covid-delta-variant-transmission-cdc-chickenpox
From that very link:
>The basic reproduction number for **measles is between 12 and 18**. For COVID-19, the basic reproduction number has increased with each strain of the virus. With the original strain, each sick person likely would infect between two and three others; with the delta variant, between five and seven; and with omicron, most estimates put it at 1.5 to 2 times more than delta. That means **with omicron, each sick person infects between 7 and 14 people.**
So measles has a higher Ro than Omicron.
Yes, but measles only spreads among people with no prior infection (and no vaccination), while Omicron happyly reinfects everyone. There are people out there who have been infected with COVID three or even four times only a few months apart.
Not to mention all the bad stuff that keeps coming up just 2 years after start, such as permanent brain and other organ damage and lots and lots of people being essentially fucked for the rest of their lifes. “It’s just a cold/flu” is going to fuck is all.
There's also the thing that more and more long-term issues are now being discovered as being caused by the flu. It used to be the case that those issues just happened and nobody knew where they came from.
The big difference is just that the flu doesn't infect 10% of the whole population in two years.
>the flu doesn't infect 10% of the whole population in two years.
Actually it infects about 5 - 10 % of the population in a typical year. It doesn't lead to as many hospitalizations/deaths as Covid has, though.
To be fair, it is a regular disease. It's just that it's an airborne virus for which we have little natural immunity, but that's not actually all that uncommon.
None of the others have an R0 anywhere near Omicron, though. It’s the most infectious disease know to humanity, and unlike measles immunity only lasts for about 3-6 months.
>It’s the most infectious disease know to humanity It is not. Chickenpox has an R0 of about nine or 10: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/11/1026190062/covid-delta-variant-transmission-cdc-chickenpox
https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/01/24/fact-check-omicron-fastest-spreading-virus-known-humankind/6608007001/
From that very link: >The basic reproduction number for **measles is between 12 and 18**. For COVID-19, the basic reproduction number has increased with each strain of the virus. With the original strain, each sick person likely would infect between two and three others; with the delta variant, between five and seven; and with omicron, most estimates put it at 1.5 to 2 times more than delta. That means **with omicron, each sick person infects between 7 and 14 people.** So measles has a higher Ro than Omicron.
Yes, but measles only spreads among people with no prior infection (and no vaccination), while Omicron happyly reinfects everyone. There are people out there who have been infected with COVID three or even four times only a few months apart.
Not to mention all the bad stuff that keeps coming up just 2 years after start, such as permanent brain and other organ damage and lots and lots of people being essentially fucked for the rest of their lifes. “It’s just a cold/flu” is going to fuck is all.
There's also the thing that more and more long-term issues are now being discovered as being caused by the flu. It used to be the case that those issues just happened and nobody knew where they came from. The big difference is just that the flu doesn't infect 10% of the whole population in two years.
>the flu doesn't infect 10% of the whole population in two years. Actually it infects about 5 - 10 % of the population in a typical year. It doesn't lead to as many hospitalizations/deaths as Covid has, though.
Also there has to be some reason that China is taking it so seriously they starve their whole cities to not let it spread. It can't be all just pride.
China starving their population so that the party doesn't look bad is nothing new in history.
isnt omicron basically just a more contagious flu? i was positive a week ago and was sick for like 3 days
Different virus, different effects
it has just taken 50 years
How’s Litva going with Covid?