That number IS SOW UTTERLY FALSE in the US.
Unless you’re living overseas right now, that’s the number that should matter most to you :)
The only thing that’s pandemic on FR these days is spreading fear and having fear :)
That number does not apply to the US but only because we’re just now starting to see domestic cases of the disease.
Ping me back in two weeks and you’ll see the US mortality numbers on par with Italy and China.
Yup. And really so tiresome.
As a class of 98’er, I can tell you we’ve been down this hyped-road several times in the past.
Anthrax, SARS, MERS, Ebola—we’re all gonna die!!!
Worse still, it is often (not saying here) the SAME FReepers now who freaked out or spread doom and gloom years ago for EACH of these so called end of the world events.