@JasmineDragon the mortality rate of this is reported as of people infected, the flu is of total population. They’re estimating the rate at between 0.1 and 0.7% now. That’s in line with the flu. The flu kills around 30-60k people every year just in the US. That averages to around 100 people a day. This virus has killed 14 people in the US in 8 weeks. Remember the panic over swine flu(h1n1)? That version actually killed fewer people than a typical flu season. Yet which did you hear more about, that one that killed about 12k or the 2018 flu season that killed 60k? The media wants to creat a panic because it gets people watching. Even using the world wide numbers the death rate is below the flu.

The panic from this is causing FAR more damage than the virus and that drives me insane. Again nearly every single case is so mild people don’t even know they have it and it’s almost entirely people with underlying problems that are suffering complications. If you were to extract just healthy people under 70 for the death rate I bet it would drop to around 0.01% or less. Nothing that any doctor has said suggests this is any more dangerous than the common flu. Mark my words as soon as people get bored with this the media with find something else to tell you to panic over. It’ll be a storm or a fire or something like that. And after that they’ll be telling us to panic because the hurricane forecast says it’s going to be above average just like every single year. Give it 5 or 6 years and they’ll attach a scary name to some new virus and just repeat all the reporting you’re hearing now just with a different name. Exactly like SARS, MERS, the bird flu, the swine flu, and Ebola. Copy/paste fill in the blank and manufacture a panic.