I am not “manipulated into hysteria”. This is a thread that covers news, research, discussion and preparation and I am one of the many folks here who research international and local news so people will have actionable information.
If you spent even a little time on these threads you would know that most of the focus at this point is what is happening in first world countries outside of China. For example, in Italy and South Korea the fatality rate is 3%, and infection rate is growing exponentially. If you don’t have the imagination to know what a CFR like that would do worldwide, or in your community—on a health level as well as economic level—then that is your shortcoming.
I have yet to see any posts that look even remotely like hysteria, except for the ones who are being facetious. Frankly, though, your post describing the hard working and diligent people on this thread as being hysterical is insulting. These people work tirelessly to provide information that may or may not affect decisions people make to protect themselves.
In any case, if this fizzles out, all I have done is caused a few people to buy some rice and beans, so what? If you are wrong, and people are not prepared because you told them it was no big deal, how are you going to feel about that?
France
DIRECT. Coronavirus: two new cases in France, announces the Director General of Health
Modified on 02/25/2020 at 19:15 | Posted on 25/02/2020 at 06:23
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7:01 p.m.
Two new cases in France, according to the Director General of Health. “We have two new cases this evening, so we have 14 confirmed cases: two people hospitalized, eleven recovered and one deceased,” said Professor Salomon during a situation update on the Covid-19. It is a young Chinese woman returned from China on February 7, hospitalized in Paris, judges “negative, but with traces of a recent recovery”, and a French man returning from Lombardy, Italy, hospitalized in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Their two states do not inspire concern.
There's been several - let me know if you want examples.