[DouglasKC]

Just answer the question...WHY are governments, including the US government, treating it LIKE it's extremely dangerous IF it's no worse than the flu? Why not just LET it happen?

[Brilliant]

About 20 times more deadly than flu.

[eclectic]

Is it time to panic?

[SkyDancer]

Because the media created the hysteria.

[BenLurkin]

As is so often the case, FReepers are alrady ripping into each other over the Wuhan Flu.

There’s really no need to start a thread dedicated to inducing fratricide.

[Meatspace]

“Why did the US ban flights from China?”

When did we do that?

[Vermont Lt]

Silly Douglas. You know the answer.

The Baghdad Bobs are in charge. The Kudlows are telling us everything is fine. Trump saying everyone that needs testing is getting testing. The CDC is working day and night on tests—they did 2(!) yesterday.

It’s just the flu...dammit.

Do I need to tag the sarcasm?

[nralife]

FFS, enough with the GD vanities designed to perpetuate doom and gloom.

[jimmygrace]

Because we have a flu vaccine... we don’t yet have one for this strain of coronavirus. The flu is a deadly known quantity that we have lived with for centuries.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Fear of the unknown = panic.

[bort]

I’ll answer your question with my own questions:

1) Why did the US government push the narrative that Y2K was basically going to end the Earth? Why?
2) Why did the US government tell us that the ozone would be depleted by 2000 if we didn’t ban spray cans?
3) Why did the US government tell us that heterosexual, non-drug users are at risk for AIDS?
I could go on and on. Your logic is circular: Gee, it must be a pandemic if the government treats it like a pandemic!! Here are some more questions:

1) Where are the piles of dead bodies in China and other countries?
2) If this virus was any more serious than the flu, etc., why aren’t healthy people being struck down left and right?
3) If the Democrat candidates for POTUS were that concerned, why would they be out in public shaking thousands of hands?

[FirstFlaBn]

Vanities are far worse than coronavirus. Please self-quarantine to protect others.

[hotsteppa]

Because of Media hype with assist from FR pearl clutchers.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Just answer the question....”

Excuse me, but didn’t the moderator GIVE you an answer>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3819695/posts

[MrEdd]

Answer the exact same question about anthropogenic climate change and you will have the answer.

Which is to say that the assertion “all nations” is fallacious.

[null and void]

It's just a cold...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[null and void]

China always welds the doors shut on thousands of apartment dwellers.

Nothing to see here, move along...