Gazebo4 wrote:I retract this premature statement and wish all people suffering from this shit all the best health.
I still feel this whole thing is blown way out of proportion though, mostly because of the mass media and because people cannot show some restraint. I understand for some people shit is tough, but panic never helped anybody in any situation. Frankly it only makes things worse.
With hospitals overrun in Italy and a nearly 10% fatality rate in that country, how exactly would you define "blown out of proportion?"
Do you think the World Health Organization and the CDC are fearmongering? As well as essentially every other public health agency in the world?
Is a global pandemic that's known to have killed tens of thousands (probably far more) and that continues to grow exponentially an insignificant event? A disease that's twice as contagious as influenza and kills 15% of elderly patients?
Emergency room physicians in New York have warned that they fully expect to run put of ventilators. That means that, like in Italy, they will essentially have to decide who lives and leave others to die. In the largest city in the United States.
And before you even think about comparing this to the flu, remember that this is a brand new virus to which there is no herd immunity. This is hitting us all at once.
Spreading this narrative of "it's overblown by the media" leads people to not take the social distancing measures seriously and is actively dangerous to the elderly and vulnerable community members. This is a global health crisis the likes of which has not been seen in over a hundred years.