As of Dec 2019, 2400 people have died from the flu and 2.5 Million people where infected - and you are worried about the 81 people that have died, mostly in 3rd world hell-holes living in unsanitary conditions?
Leave the panicing to the DUmmies.
Just like every other media-induced orgy of doom, this too shall pass.
“As of Dec 2019, 2400 people have died from the flu and 2.5 Million people where infected - and you are worried about the 81 people that have died, mostly in 3rd world hell-holes living in unsanitary conditions?”
You haven’t been to China, lately, I can see. Anyway, the 1918 flu pandemic was a bit nastier than the numbers you list.
So you actually believe that China would put 50+ million people on lockdown over 81 people dead? One doesn’t turn a city of 11 million (and others) into a ghost town over the flu.
We’ll have to see what the fatality rate settles out at; 15% but data is early and suspect. It appears that 4/5 get it when exposed. Virus could mutate but hopefully attenuates.
Looking at some you tube Wuhan looks like a ghost town. If we get that here, economy will tank, deliveries stop and some form of marital law.
At 81 per week your are at near double the flu deaths for the year. This is just the start of the bell curve on this.
I have to disagree pretty strongly here.
First, the videos I have seen coming from China are from a modern country - not from a "3rd world hell hole".
Second, it took a single person to start all of this in China, and they currently have modern highway systems blocked with cinder blocks to help prohibit travel. We already have multiple patients in the US - we may see similar travel restrictions imposed in the US (and if not, then we may see far worse).
It's not just the numbers of people infected that should be a cause for concern, but the rate of growth of those numbers. I do not know that number for this virus, however I do know that it was sufficient for a number of serious professionals to sound the alarm.
Finally, I guess one could have said "this, too, shall pass" of two World Wars. That sounds more like a "know-it-all" philosophy than a winning philosophy.