I had the flu a year ago and was delerious for three days, and quite sick for two weeks. My husband almost called an ambulance. I have no memory of those three days. I can’t imagine having a flu that is worse, so I hope I don’t get this one.
Quarantine is what works.
Governments can either greatly inconvenience an extremely small number - or take a small risk that millions will die.
Everyone coming from China should have gone into forced (locked in) quarantine from day one.
One of these years one of these viruses is going to kill 20% of the planet.
If you contract 2019-nCoV, the odds are good you won’t remember anything at all.
[I had the flu a year ago and was delerious for three days, and quite sick for two weeks. My husband almost called an ambulance. I have no memory of those three days. I can’t imagine having a flu that is worse, so I hope I don’t get this one.]
The death rate for this bug is 3%, if Chinese stats are accurate. It’s 0.17% for the flu. That’s another way of saying that this bug is 17x as deadly in China as the flu stateside, for people who get infected.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
On top of the higher fatality rate per infection, what’s bad about this bug is the fact that it may be far more infectious than the flu. So we need to pay attention to developments so we can weigh what personal measures we might need to take to lower the risk of getting infected.
Did you get a flu shot by any chance?
Take proper precautions for sure.....and yes the flu itself is very hard for certain people and even deadly for others. I’d be staying clear of airports and public transportation if possible.