Originally posted on 03/20/2020:

The flu every year is just a mutated form of a human virus that has been around for centuries. your body knows how to fight it, you were born with a immune system that was designed for this fight. Its literally written into your gene code. And every year of your life when you are exposed to various tweaks and versions of the basic flu. you build and keep specific antibodies that will sit and wait to be called upon for the next tiny tweak of the flu structure you are exposed to

Novel virus means that it doesn't come from humans. its a mutated form of an animal virus. It doesn't at all work like the flu does in attacking the body (even if symptoms are similar) On a cellular level your body is completely dumbfounded with how to defend itself. Your Genes have nothing set up for this battle. your immune system has to start from scratch. Secondly covid19 seems to mutate and figure out ways to make itself more deadly and spread quicker. its already mutated once in humans. so we have 2 strains. We have no clue if the next mutation and strain will suddenly attack young lung cells or be a 50% mortality rate ect. its a complete unknown. So we have to contain it now