Tom Ellis
1 min readApr 10, 2020

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You are missing the major difference between COVID-19 and an ordinary flu virus: COVID-19 has a much longer incubation period before symptoms appear; it is readily transmitted by aerosols from one to many people, and hit has at least a 10X higher mortality rate than flu. In other words, it spreads exponentially — from 1 to 10 to 100 to 1000 to 10,000, to 100,000 to 1 million — in just 7 iterations. So where do you get the notion that your opinion outweighs that of 100% of medical professionals worldwide with expertise in infectious diseases?

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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