What you read on here downplaying the issue likely have a personal desire to downplay it for the sake of downplaying it.
Even if it is “no worse than a common cold”, there is a distinct death rate for the common cold, it’s not trivial, and the deaths will be _in_addition_ to death rates we’ve normalized. Another 80,000 dead US residents, who otherwise would have survived, is not a small issue.
Numbers coming from China admit it _is_ worse “than a common cold”, with (as lead article notes) a >2.3% death rate. Should it full-on hit the USA (which I anticipate it will, having a sufficient rate of spread and nothing stopping it), that means 1 in 50 people you know will die this year - on top of those in that 50 who will die of something else.
And that death rate is based on Chinese numbers, which are generally accepted as seriously under-reported (lest The Party be embarrassed).
It’s not a matter of “provocateurs trying to hurt Trump”.
It’s a matter of 1 in 25 people you know will die of it by year’s end.
Please. You're asserting that as a statement of fact.
Unbelievable.