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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Oh, I totally agree. There ought to be all the emergency money we can muster thrown at expanding hospital capacity to absorb what's coming. I'd take it out of the defense budget to the extent that's possible.

I think we also need to be level-headed in assessing the danger of this thing.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/03...-we-think.html

That oft noted 3.4% death rate is somewhat misleading. Outside Wuhan, that quickly falls to .7. S. Korea has I think a .6 rate.

https://www.worth.com/coronavirus-da...dont-tell-you/

https://www.worth.com/how-mass-hyste...t-actually-is/

eta: One important difference between this and the flu is that many more people need hospitalization. Parts of Italy are running out of hospital beds and ventilators. Another is that the long-term effects aren't known yet. No one in China has had Covid-19 for more than about two months, so it seems a little premature to talk about how harmless it is for most of us.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/early-...ry?id=69477312

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...us-death-rate/

The old and those with heart and respiratory conditions should be fearful. The rest of us will likely experience a mild flu.

Please read this thread about what is happening in Northern Italy and then see if you want to keep comparing this to a mild flu.