Replies

It is no more dangerous than the flu, common cold, and any other disease that kills people.

It’s a disease that kills people, and it is apparently killing lots of them. That makes it dangerous in my book. Judging by the reactions of the leaders of virtually every nation on earth, it is something quite serious, or do you think that every one of them has been bamboozled into tanking their national economies?

Now, you might be right, that for people who are young and otherwise healthy, Wuhan/CCP virus may not be all that dangerous, although there are some hints that it may cause long-term damage to important organs to people who survive their first brush with it. This thing is new, and nobody really knows a whole lot about it.

An anecdotal experience. A friend of my wife has come down with Wuhan and is quarantined in her home. She has health issues. Her husband also has health issues—lung disease—and is going into a hospice unit today. His lung condition was terminal anyway, and I expect that if he dies, he will be counted as a Wuhan death. He is dying anyway, but Wuhan looks like it’s hurrying things along. He might well have had another year or so of life.

It may well be that most of the Wuhan deaths are from people who had underlying health problems, but this virus is killing people.