I am not sure of your point.
The world is full of shit that would love to kill you.
The point is this virus is being hyped to much! They stopped talking about the Flu because it comes every year and can’t beat Trump over the head with it. So along comes this virus related to the cold and they say it is new that way they can use it against Trump...
This site has videos/slides explaining the differences between this disease and the flu and why they matter. It is a _long_ list. Please take a look at it:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
You are the definition of normalcy bias:
Things are the way they are. They are the way they have always been. And therefore, it will always be the same.
Until it isn’t.
All of the maladies that are probably going to kill you are already baked into the cake. 50,000 flu deaths happen every year. So, we staff for 50,000 flu deaths. And every other death type. We build hospitals to handle that. We have ICU beds to handle that. There is no slack in that system. At all.
Now, drop on top of that 20,000 more patients. Not infected people, but patients that need hospitalization in an ICU.
You guys look at this as if it is a black or white situation—either you get the flu or you get this new virus.
It is happening at the same time. It could cause a chokepoint in the system—thus overwhelming our healthcare system. Note: I am not saying millions of people. Tens of thousands will screw it up pretty bad.
The bigger issue is that the economic impact will be much larger. Most people are “shocked” by the flu deaths. They are ignorant of the status quo.
This will cause them to be hypersensitive about it—changing the way they live their day to day lives. That will have an impact on our economy. And a magnified one.
Now drop on top of all of THAT...we are still about five to six weeks from getting the supply chain back up from China. That will start impacting US factories in a larger way in the coming weeks.
None of this is hyperbole. None of it should be read with a tone of screaming, shrieking, or any other utterance except calm recitation of facts.
You and I probably will never get sick from this. The odds are certainly in our favor that we will not die.
But the odds are very good that we will feel an economic impact from it.
Its that simple.