IT IS THE F’N FLU!!!
So it is the flu?
Yes it is a new version of the flu. The panic mongers are screeching the sky is gonna fall because there are “unknowns” about it. But just because there are unknowns so far does not mean they won’t be “known’s at some point and it also doesn’t mean the unknowns will be Armageddon. You know at one point all of the now mundane A & B virus strains were also “unknowns” and look around, here we all are still alive.
go here
https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html
Flu's are caused by the influenza virus. This is a corona virus. It is NOT a flu. If anything it's more akin to a viral pneumonia. Influenza virus's target the upper respiratory system. This virus targets the lower respiratory system.
Your own link says that on average 8% of the population will get the flu.
If JUST that many get this virus that would mean almost 30 million in the US will get the corona virus.
Your own link also says that the death rate is somewhere between 1.4% and 2.3%. That's around half a million dead.
But that's not the real worry. The real worry is that this spread FASTER and MORE than influenza. Your own link says that for each person that gets the flu they spread it to 1.3 other people. With the corona virus each person who gets it spreads it to 2 or 3 people on average.
And the REAL worry, why so many governments are trying to stop it, is hospitalizations. Every example we have says that 5% who get it end up in critical condition...if they are not in ICU's they die. If 30 million people get infected that's 1.5 million who would need icu treatment to stay alive. There are ONLY 1 million total hospital beds in the US and on average only 40% of those are available. There are FAR FAR fewer ICU beds available.
See the problem? After just a little while the medical care system get's overwhelmed. That's exactly what's happening in Italy and Iran right now.