“All that said, coronavirus is likely to be less lethal here (barring our medical system getting overloaded) because we have less smoking, less pollution, better nutrition and better medical care than China.”
This thing picked off many, many health workers in China. I wouldn’t overstate the better nutrition and health care aspects, although the rest is clearly valid.
“Still more than the flu, but less than the worldwide (mainly Chinese) experience so far.”
That looks likely.
During the 1918 Swine Flu epidemic, it was found that undernourished people died or died faster than the people who could afford meat. So your comment about nutrition, I think, will prove true in the US. If the Chinese are eating dog and reptiles, it would seem to me that healthy beef is not readily available lowering their protein build up in their bodies. These viruses like to devour protein.