[Artcore]

And more have died from one of the more common influenza strains. But that doesn’t feed the hysteria now does it?

[DannyTN]

Apples and Oranges.

• You don't see people dropping dead on the street from the flu.
• We've all had the flu. We haven't had this.
• We have vaccines for the flu, not for this.
• There are antiviral drugs for the flu, not for this.
• The fatality rate is still 6 to 7 times higher for this than the flu, but not as many people have caught this yet as the flu.
• If it continues to spread at an exponential rate, and infects as many people as the flu, it will kill as many people in a year as the flu kills in 7 years.
• But it could infect a lot more than the flu does any given year, as there is neither natural protection or vaccines against it.

So this Coronavirus could make the flu look like a cold. It might not. The only histeria I see, is coming from the people in Wuhan, who are running out of food, and are scared.

Planning is appropriate. Monitoring is appropriate. Efforts to halt the spread are appropriate.