Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. The Case Fatality Rate for the flu is 0.83% (per the CDC) for ages 65 and over, and minuscule (0.06% for those 50-64 and even less for those under 50). The CFR for Covid-19 so far is 3.4% per the WHO. The current stats at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ back that up - divide the # dead by # infected from the top of that page. That's over 35X more deadly than the common flu. Plus, it has an infectious rate (R0) that is greater than the Spanish Flu, and up to 3.5X the common flu.
If those numbers continue to hold anywhere near those levels, we are likely totally screwed.
This article here shows that the corona virus death rate reported from communist China government agencies is not reliable:
The news media is creating panic just for political reasons. the news media is trying to create a global economic depression that WILL kill millions worldwide just to get rid of one man Donald Trump in an election.
The 2018 flu caused 80,000 deaths in the USA. If what you all and the news media are saying were true then this corona would cause close to a million deaths this year in the USA alone( This will not happen ).
It's all election year news media hype. The corona virus only appeared a few months ago. there is not enough testing to conclude that death rate.
There is milions of times more media hype than for the 2009 swine flu and we all know the reasons.
Do you think an economic depression won't kill people? Is that what you want?
The truth is that these numbers are all suspect & the WHO has been wildly wrong in the past. This theorizing ahead of data and by making assumption on assumption is what created the global warming monster.
“With 6,767 confirmed cases as of late Friday, South Korea has more coronavirus patients than any country besides China. That high number may in part be a function of the country’s sweeping testing program that involved tens of thousands of people. When balanced against the country’s 44 deaths, the case-fatality ratio is less than 0.7%.”
“That figure may offer a better sense of COVID-19’s true fatality rate, said Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.”
“By testing so many people, they were actually able to find more cases,” Faust said. “It means they noticed the disease was everywhere, and it doesn’t kill that many people.
“The more testing you do, the more accurate your numbers become,” he added.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-07/why-the-coronavirus-fatality-rate-keeps-changing