The cruise liner is a decent example, I suppose, but I think the care received in a US hospital is far better than the care received in a Chinese hospital. Their government’s valuation of life is far less than ours from what I’ve read.
I had corona a few years back, and I know because I was hospitalized at the time, and they had to find out if a cold I developed was a problem. So, they tested, and it came back corona. They wore masks, put signs on my door, etc.
It truly was like a cold, and it went away after a few days.
We’re hearing that the worst cases are among the elderly, and I just read one comment that spoke of how huge smoking is in Asia.
All of this is just to say there are a lot of variables.
The coronavirus you had was NOT this coronavirus.
You had the ‘common cold’ coronavirus. There’s not really any listed morbidity/mortality data for that particular one as it’s so mild.
Best evidence is that THIS particular coronavirus has about a 2% mortality rate. Or about 1 out of 50 people die. Not JUST the elderly either. In this country that’s about 6-7million dead out of our population of ~350M.
Flu might kill 100K/yr.