Coronavirus is several times more contagious than flu, several times more deadly than flu, but it is very low on the scale of truly awful possible pandemics.

It's the easy mode, practice for those worse pandemics that are coming.
If governments fail abjectly with coronavirus, imagine how utterly fucked they will be when the next pandemic is as infectious as measles and as deadly as a filavirus.
Sudan ebolavirus can have a 65% fatality rate. Zaire can have a 90% fatality rate.

Influenza has an r0 of 1.4-1.6. About the same as those ebolas.

Measles has an r0 of 12-18.

There's plenty of room to expand into.
Coronavirus is very close to the bottom of the range when it comes to infectiousness and lethality.

It's easy mode. Countries that don't learn from it, are utterly fucked when the next pandemic makes it look like the common cold.
It's easy mode. It's pretty much the easiest and most probable scenario for pandemics that governments could have planned for.

As we can see, many did not even do this much forethought.
What this means is: those countries that manage to deal with it competently, can *never* let up their guard and go back to what was once normal.

Not just because of the coronavirus itself, but the inevitability of another pandemic that makes it looks like the common cold
Countries that fail to competently deal with it, are fucked in the short and long run.
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