SARS had a 7.2% death rate, COVID has a 3.2% death rate.
The 2003 outbreak of SARS had just over 8,000 cases worldwide. It is obviously not even close to the same danger as the current Covid-19 pandemic.
It started with an "outbreak" just like covid. Yet, fortunately, it didn't get to high #'s (to our knowledge) When covid broke out, we pretty much immediately went on lockdown...curious to know reasons why between the two incidents...
The difference is the virulence of the virus. How rapidly it spreads. That is why one caused less than 1,000 deaths worldwide, and the other has killed hundreds of thousands. So you take different precautions with different viruses.
So, I'm getting info that H1n1, in 2009, had over 60 MILLION cases, deaths 280k..however, another site states only 12k...what to believe? Then covid, 11 million cases (u.s.) with almost 250k deaths...regardless, why the action taken now and not back then? There wasn't any sort of "panic" or "fear" in the air, as I recall. I do remember them pushing for a vaccine, and reports on the news, along with a few schools closing, but NOTHING compared to what's going on now...heck of a lot more cases back then, however, no panic or lockdown, economic issues (minus the 2008 economic crisis)....its been a trying year and definitely one to learn from. I feel most people don't change or wash their mask, so its basically like wearing dirty underwear. Pointless...agree to disagree...