We need a virus that is quite demonstrable in its not just lithality. And this vi s because it has not only that, isn't it true? Had it been more deadly then and we sort of sat to attention sooner we a more deadly virus probably would have ended up with fewer deaths. If people recover, its like they went to somelaky bola, where you see people bleeding from every single orifice, and then they die. But then the virus, i less likely to be trimitted. It's like that atude at the night club that tells every woman something different so that he can go home with a different woman every night.
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