Sir, I owe you an apology. The critical first line of the information was left out when I C&P’d. Here is the original that I was trying to C&P It was all juxtaposed against the 32k worldwide deaths. The info is also over a day old now:
How deadly is the Wuhan virus? Well, worldwide the stats look like this:
32,180 Deaths this year
But it’s got some stiff competition for killing people. Here are some serious contenders as of today:
3,144,547 Communicable disease deaths this year
117,758 Seasonal flu deaths this year
1,841,195 Deaths of children under 5 this year
74,870 Deaths of mothers during birth this year
407,202 Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS this year
1,989,408 Deaths caused by cancer this year
237,598 Deaths caused by malaria this year
1,210,911 Deaths caused by smoking this year
605,837 Deaths caused by alcohol this year
259,754 Suicides this year
326,984 Road traffic accident fatalities this year
This virus is not even in the top ten. And we’re locked down over it? I smell something funny.
A lot more people caught the flu, so far, than have had CCP-19. We just want to keep it that way, for reasons that have been thoroughly discussed.
If the HCS crashes, the economy crashes. If the economy crashes, the HCS crashes.
This halfway shutdown is painful for everybody, but it has the best chance of saving both the HCS and the economy. We quite literally are on a war footing, and major battles are on our home soil for the first time in most of our lifetimes.
BTW, the Brits, among others, are screaming at the Chinese for their lies about how bad this virus is. We all knew they lied, now it’s coming out into the public forum.