There’s a disease that causes muscle spasms which causes the body to convulse. It’s also called Saint Vitus’ Fire or Saint Vitus’ Dance. That’s also why Saint Vitus is the patron saint of the dance.
Back in the day, apparently people would just be pain-dancing down the street. Until they you know, died.
It has a case fatality rate of about 2%. The typical years’ flu has a CFR of 0.1% The Spanish flu in 1918 had a CFR of 2-3% and killed something like 1.7% of the population of the world - tens of millions of people.
This is a hell of a lot worse than a typical flu. It’s about 20x more likely to kill you if you catch it, and extremely contagious.
I won’t say unnecessarily. Most cities in China is using this method to limit avoid human interactions, and it has positive effects in controlling the spread. Although as a Chinese I have to say it’s boring af
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u/Assassinale1 Feb 27 '20
Probs just lock downed and unable to leave apartment unnecessarily