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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8101609" data-attributes="member: 177">Ebola has an R0 of 1.5 to 1.9, fairly comparable to common influenza at 0.9 to 2.Common colds typically have an R0 of 2 to 3Covid-19, however, has an R0 of 2 to 6.Measels, mumps, and chicken pox, by comparison, have an R0 of 10 or higher.  So, no, ebola isn't highly spreadable, as these things go.  It is at the lower end of the range of spreadability - which is good, because if it were not, we'd be dead.Ebola is very, very dangerous to an individual - if you get it, you have like a 50% chance of dying (the death rate varies widely, outbreak to outbreak, but 50% is in the middle of the range).  Case mortality rate for covid-19 is more like 3%.So, individuals are more scared of ebola.  However, because it spreads much more, covid-19 is far more deadly to a population.  Again, I note - China did not have the benefit of foreknowledge. Covid-19 has spread in Wuhan before anyone knew it existed.  So, they had issues controlling it.  Everyone else in the world had warning.  And still they couldn't/didn't control it.  And remember - most of the Covid-19 in the US didn't come directly from China.  It came through Europe.  So, there's lots of folks in-between us and the source.I understand that folks want someone to blame, especially someone other than themselves.  But trying to blame China, when we have had even worse management of it, is hardly fair.</blockquote>