[Wonder Warthog]

"You are more likely to die from medical error, the third leading cause of death in the USA, than either the corona virus or the flu which kills thousands every year."

And we should not, therefore, try to actively prevent all those things?? Sorry, but that's just irrational, not to mention immoral.

[RichardMoore]

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Watching the main stream TV news is like asking for panic. It reminds me of the OJ trial. The media likes to latch on to one story and beat it to death.

There are people who obviously have political agendas to promote who actually look quite happy to trash the economy. Telling people that receiving communion on the hand is more sanitary than reception on the tongue smells like one of those type of agendas.

As for prevention, of course we should do that. But the point is there are worse problems that we face. And this hysteria will cause more problems than it solves.

We need to avoid senseless panic. The Italian government has ordered all public masses to be stopped.

One wonders if the Chinese have not initiated this “epidemic” just to crash the western economy.