Do you have more information on this?
Color me skeptical, 70k infected, 2k dead isn't alarming to me, but if there's contrary information, I'd definitely consider reassessing.
It’s covered in medical reports assessing the risks coming out of China, I don’t have the actual links now. Basically the pattern is
First week you feel a little sick
Second week, 80% of the people will get better, 20% will have a relapse/get worse. They are generally hospitalized at that point for respiratory distress.
If you haven’t recovered by the end of the second week, in the third week you have a 20% chance of dying, as for the rest they possibly recover although it is not clear yest how fast your recover. It seems that this may linger in your system for weeks and weeks. That’s why the statistics on recovery are so low, many of those infected by the virus aren’t over it yet even though they are several weeks in.
I don't know enough about viral infections to understand why EVERYBODY doesn't get one when it is prevalent.
However, a mortality rate of one in thirty five (that is, 2k dead out of 70k infected) extrapolates to approximately 10 MILLION people out of a population of 350 million in the US. Now that sounds like a lot.
If you factor in an increased mortality for the elderly, then it sounds even worse given that my wife and I are in our seventies.
Until somebody offers an explanation to justify complacency, I will choose to avoid contact with just about anybody for several months until my crystal ball loses its cloudiness.