Feels like covid in late 2019/early 2020. I’m half expecting to read some Reddit post from some guy in a major city saying that he has some weird cold and his doctor told him not to go outside but he’s unable to test so he’s unsure what it is. Of course I said the same thing about bird flu last year and that has yet to pop off. The difference of course being that hantavirus has confirmed human-to-human transmission, bird flu never did.
Thoughts? Are you preparing for covid 2? Think it’ll fizzle out?
How contagious is it? What’s the transmission vector? I could probably look these up, but my break is almost over.
Edit: saliva, urine, feces. Transmission between humans requires prolonged contact. Unless there’s a significant mutation it doesn’t sound like epidemic material.
This. The only way for it to become a pandemic is through significant mutation that affects transmission mechanisms, and so far I haven’t seen any evidence of this.