[AAABEST]

... hysterical Freeper crowd.

I'm not one of them - in fact think people are overreacting to this.

That said, whatever the rate (.06 sounds ridiculously low), thousands of people in Italy have died thus far and the hospitals are overwhelmed.

That's what we're trying to avoid.

[AndyJackson]

thousands of people in Italy have died thus far and the hospitals are overwhelmed.

You are wrong. It's the sniffles and most of the population has already been infected without detection. /s/

[FreedomNotSafety]

How any in Italy have been infected? That is a most important number in calculating a ratio.

[beethovenfan]

I think it’s 6 %, not .06%.

[ifinnegan]

“That said, whatever the rate (.06 sounds ridiculously low), thousands of people in Italy have died thus far and the hospitals are overwhelmed.”

That’s because it’s overwhelmingly in one city.

Like in China, like in Korea, like here with New York. Yesterday New York had more than half the deaths.