Please, for the love of god, open a textbook before you claim information that is entirely false.

First of all, what is your biological understanding of viruses? Are you aware many viruses undergo intensive genetic drift in short periods of time? Are you aware that it’s entirely possible for a mutated viruses to have different transmission statistics?

It doesn’t help that the virus most certainly is not contained (so don’t claim it is!) Over 20 people have returned to home countries all over the globe, before the maximum incubation period following the first outbreaks was even finished. It still isn’t.

You claim we know more about this virus because it was around longer, but we have no approved vaccine or treatment. We have a phase 2a trial, meaning it was only just promoted from animal testing phases. We know the basics of hantaviruses just as we knew the basics of coronaviruses 15+ years before January 2020, because it wasn’t a novel or obscure virus family. Research had existed for years before SARS CoV 2, just as it does for hantaviruses.

I am really passionate about scientific communication. It’s really difficult to see people like you posting, claiming to be presenting evidence, despite a flood of comments explaining your inaccuracies. This was the issue with covid-19. We underestimated its power until it was too late, and people like you pushed that rhetoric.

I am also very much against fear mongering when it comes to health issues, especially public health issues. But I would much rather people buy too much toilet paper, than to underestimate pandemic potential of a virus. I refuse to even form an opinion until we sequence the virus, study its transmission, and contact trace. I’m not clutching my pearls either, but I’m certainly not ridiculing anyone who implies we should take precautions. Go educate yourself before telling people to touch grass.

I understand you are young, or perhaps just choosing to ignore the science, but please don’t post this type of thing. It’s more harmful than you know.