@bvaughn0402:
You say,
Something about those graphs seem inaccurate.
I know why you feel that way; the video seems to say "COVID-19 Very Very Bad" and the graph seems to say "COVID-19 Bad, But Not So Bad."
But I think both the video and the graph can be true at the same time, because they're describing different things. The video emphasizes
cumulative deaths. But the graph is emphasizing
infectiousness (on one axis) and
deadliness (CFR) on the other.
They're related, of course. But they're not the same thing.
A relatively
not-deadly virus (like our current foe, SARS-CoV-2) can still rack up way more
cumulative deaths than a
much more deadly virus (like Ebola), simply by being much more infectious. A smaller percentage of cases result in death, but it's a percentage of a vastly huger number of cases.
So you could have the less-infectious Ebola get into 3,000 people and kill 2,900 of them;
and at the same time, you could have the more-infectious SARS-CoV-2 infecting a billion people. It's a testament to SARS-CoV-2's lesser deadliness that maybe 90% of those who're infected don't even know they have COVID-19 (because they either have no symptoms, or symptoms they mistake for a seasonal flu), but of the remaining 10% (100 million people), if half need to be hospitalized, well...! We don't
have 50 million hospital beds! And if only 1% of the infected billion die of it, that's still 10 million graves. Yikes.
For the vast majority of persons who
aren't in their 80's with emphysema, the Wuhan Flu isn't particularly deadly. But man, has it been infectious!
So I think the video's push for social-distancing is on-point. SARS-CoV-2's power is in its infectiousness. Prevent it from wielding that power, and the outbreak becomes less-disastrous.