03-15-2020, 04:32 AM
A lower estimate for the mortality rate comes from South Korea - 0.7% - based on a larger and more representative group of people than the older 3.4% number. The 0.7% number makes it comparable to the ordinary flu. Even if the final number is a bit higher (probably less than 2%), the world-wide response to it all seems quite overblown.
Something like the ordinary flu (except, perhaps, a bit more dangerous for the very oldest) is spreading across the world, but the response is nothing like that towards the ordinary flu.
Media reporting focuses mostly on the few who have died, while the many stories of people who've already recovered after mild sickness are not as sell-worthy/attention-grabbing. Seriously, the ordinary flu could be made to seem as scary - apart from not being new - by reporting vigorously about all the cases of death in a year.
My own silly illogi-reporting is here:
https://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/Illogi...d_eyesight
(The headline is intentionally misleading, and the article weirder than it makes it sound.)
Something like the ordinary flu (except, perhaps, a bit more dangerous for the very oldest) is spreading across the world, but the response is nothing like that towards the ordinary flu.
Media reporting focuses mostly on the few who have died, while the many stories of people who've already recovered after mild sickness are not as sell-worthy/attention-grabbing. Seriously, the ordinary flu could be made to seem as scary - apart from not being new - by reporting vigorously about all the cases of death in a year.
My own silly illogi-reporting is here:
https://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/Illogi...d_eyesight
(The headline is intentionally misleading, and the article weirder than it makes it sound.)