As of two days ago it was reported there were 1255 deaths this year from the Corona-virus during this flu season. Did we have the same type of breathless reporting during the 2017-18 flu season when there were 20 times more deaths from the flu?
Why didn't an infectious respiratory illness. with nearly the same symptoms that caused approximately 20 times more deaths cause the same type of chaos? Something does not add up. This virus is by all measures a variant of the flu. If there had not been living conditions in Wuhan that made it flair up in a spectacular way, there is a good chance that the virus would not have been identified, the excess deaths would habe been attributed to the flu and no worldwide panic would have ensued.
It is not a matter of comparing against the entire population, it is really a matter of comparing against those people who really get sick enough to require treatment, versus those who die at that point. Those statistics are devastating. Compare against the entire population if you want to dismiss and ignore everything. Even by the administrations explanations, the mortality rate is 10 times or more higher. And with older age groups even here. Yes, that is an abstract statistics for most people but should be sobering to anybody that’s willing to think about it in a non-political way.