its gonna be fine i mean, some more people are gonna die ofc but look to SARS and MERS (relatively closely related viruses) for examples of the most likely outcome not that a worse scenario is impossible, just unlikely, given what we know
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bit of a special case, but also I'm way more afraid of flu than I am of random zoonotic coronaviruses flu is already adapted to human biology, and recombinants between existing, well-adapted strains and exotic, more virulent bird/porcine strains form easily
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SARS and MERS both burned out fairly quickly, probably because they aren't well adapted to humans, same as Ebola and most other zoonotics zoonotic events leading to adaptation and sustained transmission in humans much, much rarer
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spanish flu had a unique set of circumstances; it had antigens that hadn't appeared in flu for like 30 years so young people had no immunity at all, and all the young people were at war in trenches, so it just spread super rapidly
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sorry halvorz if I'm using the wrong terminology or got something horribly wrong here
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