You must also be under the impression that his post was meaningful. Let's fix that, again.
There have been over 80,000 deaths from the flu. But that's from a total number of cases in the millions. 15 million in the US alone.
Less than 100,000 people have been diagnosed with the Corona virus and more than 3,000 have died. You don't have to be a math whiz to which has a higher death rate.
And the comparison misses the whole point, regardless. Less than 100,000 people have had the Corona virus because it is new and just beginning its spread. It takes very very little thought to be able to project an uncontrolled spread into the future. Somehow even that little bit of thought seems to be outside the grasp of some people, but still.
The very real prospect is that the virus spreads throughout the human population and we end up with millions of cases of it, too. What do you think those flu stat comparisons look like then? That's the whole point. That's what people are concerned about. It's not constrained to only the people that already have it. Geez.
To be clear, it is not the end of world. It is not going to wreck civilization and cause the zombie apocalypse. Yes, there's a ton of stupid paranoia being posted. But it really is very real threat that could kill millions of people, and cause very significant disruption in our economies and healthcare systems. Stupid comparisons to current flu stats do absolutely nothing at all to argue otherwise.
You’re going to be so disappointed. Again.