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by gpm 2285 days ago
That's substantially less deadly than cars. 20 years of car crashes are equivalent to this virus, and we've had and will continue to have a lot more than 20 years worth of car crashes. 5000ppm by your estimate die once, and then the virus probably stops being a problem.

We can have some faith that this virus is a one time event because

- A vaccine will probably be invented before long.

- Effective treatment will probably be discovered.

- If there is no vaccine and no treatment for some reason. You probably can't catch it twice, maybe everyone gets it once, but after that only kids get it, and kids don't die from it anyways.