Originally Posted by Stickfight
If COVID continues to climb this ranking, will anyone change their assessment of its risk? What if it overtakes the one disease above that can also be caught from a sneeze?

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I won't. This virus is pretty much a one year thing. It will be here always, but by next year, almost everyone will have been exposed, most will be immune, and society will have developed here immunity. All those other things will be here killing the same number every year.