It's way worse than Ebola, I think
Hello; I guess much depends on which aspect of the two diseases being considered. Ebola is a much more deadly disease in terms of fatality rates. From 60 to 90% of those infected do die is my understanding. Ebola has, so far, had a much smaller global impact for a couple of reasons. First one being it is much harder to transmit from person to person. Direct contact with an infected persons body fluids needed if I recall. Ebola also has a shorter incubation period I think so the symptoms show up sooner. These two things have allowed outbreaks to, so far, be contained pretty much.
Covid19 Has a much lower fatality rate by far. I suspect this will be well under 2% and am thinking possibly only a fraction of one percent. The things allowing Covid19 to become a pandemic are the apparent ease of transmission and that it can take many days for symptoms to appear. Indeed for maybe 50% of the infected there are no symptoms.
Lately one of my early guesses appears to be confirmed. That being the covid19 virus is aerosol. Early on the "experts" were guessing it was only spread on tiny droplets of a cough or sneeze. That these droplets were heavy enough to fall out of the air in six to ten feet. Over the weekend I have seen announcements stating it is aerosol and can linger in the air for three hours. This is significant.
To me aerosol is illustrated by the vapor cloud we see when we exhale into cold winter air. The warm moist breath hits cold air and we can see our breath. Assuming these TV announcements are true an infected person will be shedding virus in a cloud by simply breathing. Say I am in a store where an infected person was an hour of more earlier. My take is the virus can still be floating about. This gets into what I think might be termed the virus load.
If memory serves some of how sick a person gets may depend on how much virus you pick up. Say you are walking around a store and do breath in some virus laden air. Here is my unsupported guesswork again. If I walked in an area an hour after an infected person I might breath in X amount of virus. If I were walking six feet behind an infected person I could be breathing in maybe 1000X amount of virus.
Another of my unsupported guess being if getting an X amount of virus then only a few of my respiratory tract cells will be invaded. Say 10 cells. The virus takes over those cells, makes many copies. The body starts the series of events which lead to antibody production. My possibly flawed thinking being while it takes a while for the body to make enough antibodies to be effective, that with so few virus at the start the antibodies are in place before a huge number of other cells are ruptured.
If you get 1000X amount at the start then way many more body cells are damaged before the immune system makes enough antibodies to make a difference. You likely get much sicker. A farfetched notion perhaps. Any way I now not only stay many feet away from others when out , I also try to not walk behind them.
Give me a choice I will pick covid19 over Ebola every time. Much better chance of survival.
The help has to be paid, and writing checks forces them to go to the bank (unless they have a mobile App)...Seven cords of seasoned hardwoods is not cheap. I laundered money....hot soapy water with lots of bleach...then ironed each bill..ugh... to reduce the likelihood of any one handling the money picking up a contagion.
