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Originally Posted by FD
Too many people are panicking and that is unnecessary and unhelpful, but at the same time there is a big difference between the best-case and worst-case scenarios here. The difference is whether a couple thousand people die or 100,000+ people die. That to me is worth taking seriously, meaning stop treating this as a PR issue that will burn itself out and work to get on top of it before it gets out of control.
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The seasonal flu this season has killed at least 12,000 people in the US (from October 1, 2019 through February 1, 2020).
31 million Americans were infected by the seasonal flu during that same time-frame and 210,000 to 370,000 had to be hospitalized from complications related to the flu.
Again this is all from the seasonal or "regular" flu that doesn't have the ominous "COVID-19" branding and therefore doesn't have the panic-inducing headlines in the media.
The worst thing about the COVID-19 "epidemic" to-date is the unnecessary hysteria.