COVID-19 Mega thread

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More people died from the normal flu during the SARS epidemic than from SARS.

This agent is even lower in mortality rates.

Although new, it is a biological non-event in the 'pandemic' science fiction movie that the Chinese are worrying about.

Although it is inevitable we will get some nasty spread of biological agents with a much higher mortality rate, this is not the one.
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i have the exact same symptoms of the coronavirus right now, but it's probably influenza or bronchitis.

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This thing has been blown 10,000 X out of proportion by the media.

The number of deaths is 213.

The number of cases is 10,000.

Can people now see where 2.13% comes from before I blow a woofle valve.

The number of social media and forum posts with no intellectual or scientific basis is 12,800,000,000

It's more damaging as a digital pandemic on people's mind to be honest.

to be fair some of the sick still have to die... so the 2,13% is likely higher. As there were a lot of new cases in latest days, that number isn't to be underestimated. It's now how it works. Better to be overblown and take precautions, than to do nothing at all.