People comparing COVID to Smallpox seems wildly absurd.
Smallpox is more than an order of magnitude more lethal than COVID in the areas where COVID has had the highest recorded mortality.
Relative to e.g. Norwegian numbers it's two orders of magnitude.
Two orders of magnitude.
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If COVID were Smallpox and we had no effective treatment, 16 million people in the US alone would be dead.
16 million.
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That's more than three times the deaths recorded for COVID worldwide.
Totally comparable viral illnesses, of course.
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