“Sounds like just another flu to me …”
It’s not the flu. Most of those 80,000 are in one city, by the way, that does not have 80,000 hospital beds. Most of the confirmed cases are in makeshift hospitals (death camps, sorry, but that is the reality) or locked into their own homes.
The crematoriums are running at triple capacity, minimum (I am basing that number on the assumption that the crematoriums normally run 8/7 but it is reported that they usually run 4/5), and the people working in them are reporting in excess of 100 bodies per day, running 24/7. And there are an additional 40 incinerators there to deal with “medical waste”. Right. So at least 4900 bodies per day (49 crematoriums in Wuhan) instead of the normal 800 or 900. Hmmm.
If the death total were as the Chinese have reported it, they could have handles the extra bodies with a couple of hours of overtime per week. They are lying. This is what happens when the medical infrastructure is overwhelmed. And with everybody that is even looking at China instead of Japan or Korea or Italy, nobody is even asking if the numbers from the other hotspots in China are accurate (let’s hope so). In any case, as long as we have containment and can focus on brush fires as they crop up, we’ll do okay, but if it gets loose on a large scale, a lot of people might die. A lot.
It’s not just the flu and dismissing it as such is dangerous.
Don’t panic, but prepare and be vigilant.
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.