Let me add a little perspectve.
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2017
Let me add a little more perspective.
If we don’t contain this, CCP-19 will top that list even if our HCS survives. By a lot. That’s assuming that only the same number of people that normally get the flu caught it. But without any vaccines or existing immunities, penetrance would be in the 70 to 90% range. So instead of 1 in 7 people catching the flu, 5 or 6 out of 7 would catch CCP-19.
So all the little things and all the big things we are being asked - and told - to do matter. That’s what this is all about. Slowing it down until we have an effective treatment. We won’t have a vaccine this year, and probably not next year. Our best hope right now is HCQ+AZT and that could be rolled out in a few weeks if we are lucky.