SOME MORE PERSPECTIVE:
* According to the John Hopkins Coronavirus Tracker, updated in real time, there are 7,516 deaths worldwide due to COVID-19; a majority of those deaths occurring in China, Italy, and Iran.
* There are currently a little less than less than 200,000 cases also reported worldwide. Those numbers will rise. Will there be more deaths before the virus has “washed over” and the curve of infected people finally flattened? No doubt, but tens or hundreds of millions of fatalities won’t happen, thanks to modern medicine and the ability of governments to respond immediately to the pandemic.
* Vaccine testing is underway, while social distancing, closure of schools/public gathering places, cancellation of sporting events, coupled with work-from-home arrangements, and the quarantine of infected individuals which will help to help stem the spread of the virus.
* It’s also worth mentioning that in comparison, deaths in the United States due to influenza has already topped 20,000 for the 2019-2020 flu season and for which there has been no media hype, nor panic.
Tower of Babel?
I remember that Cyprian Plague. It was a doozy.
What do you mean, "If"?
So called experts here on this forum are running full steam with these death rates which are based on confirmed cases
For the record the flu death rate is based on estimates of total cases
Based on confirmed cases here it’s 10% death rate
Then we get into comorbidity death rates which in Italy are huge numbers in the death numbers ...some even claiming 90 plus percent also have serious existing illness like cancer and taking chemo etc
What’s average age....77-80
Worlds gone crazy.
What has made this pandemic seem bad, is that the average human, in their quest for instant knowledge, resposibility be damned, has created the world of people who talk to a camera, while reading whatever has been placed in front of them. A paradise of peurility!!