Is everyone in a fullblown panic because of coronavirus?

[TreeFrogTrader]

The dems better hope that it is not sexually transmitted. Otherwise it is going to hit their ilk pretty hard, given that most dems spend a good deal of their time just thinking about or involved in sex and/or drugs.

Be careful out there. Just lookin out for you as always.

 

[vanzandt]

Wow...65 million in 18 months. Sounds like a lot until you realize that 97.5 million people die every 18 months without the virus.

How many people do you know that died in the last 18 months? If you knew of 2 people that died in the last 18 months, then with coronavirus you would've known of 3 people. That's how little it will effect your lives on a worst case scenario.

Hmph. That's certainly an interesting perspective.
It might help global warming too now that you brought it up.

 

[CET]

I've already found a cure for this virus. Steadily drink Corona beer until the symptoms pass, but it only works if you add a lime slice in the bottle. Squeezed, of course, and lick your fingers afterwords so no juice is wasted.

 

[Overnight]

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How many people do you know that died in the last 18 months? If you knew of 2 people that died in the last 18 months, then with coronavirus you would've known of 3 people. That's how little it will effect your lives on a worst case scenario.

This is a silly question. I do not know anyone who has died in the last 18 months, because all the people I have known have died years ago, before this outbreak. You are not good at scientific polls.

 

[southall]

Wow...65 million in 18 months. Sounds like a lot until you realize that 97.5 million people die every 18 months without the virus.

How many people do you know that died in the last 18 months? If you knew of 2 people that died in the last 18 months, then with coronavirus you would've known of 3 people. That's how little it will effect your lives on a worst case scenario.

At he moment the fatality rate is less than 3%, that means if 65 million people do die, then over 2Billion people would have been infected. That would mean massive disruption. Hospitals would not be able to cope.
If your city was one of those badly hit you would not want to leave the house. And hopefully have a decent supply of food.
Lets all hope it doesn't get that bad.

 

[Wallet]

Just saw this, if we can just start calling the coronavirus by it’s proper name, the “Kung Flu”.

 

[wildchild]

The media should be in full blown panic mode.

https://www.businessinsider.com/scientist-simulated-coronavirus-pandemic-deaths-2020-1

A simulation showed the potential for this thing to kill 65 million people. It is a huge deal. If it goes pandemic we are all fucked. There is really no other way to put it. We are tape-your-windows-and-live-off-dried-food fucked if that happens.

Personally, I think this will be the start of our fall back to normal stock market numbers. The election in November will just finish the market off. Welcome to the new recession. Travel, casino, and hotel stocks are going to be the first to plummet here in the next few weeks when Chinese New Year hits and no one is going to the party.

It takes some real smoothbrain thinking to somehow come to the conclusion the panic is only coming from the "hoaxsters".

I am going to tag this post, because when this thing fizzles out, clowns like you will claim that there was never a prediction that it would kill 10s of millions.

BTW, they made the same claim about SARS, MERS, Bird Flu, and Swine Flu.

 

[wildchild]

Just saw this, if we can just start calling the coronavirus by it’s proper name, the “Kung Flu”.

No, it is the CoronaVirus and Tony Romo is fucked.

 

[UsualName]

SARS, bird flu, MERS, Ebola, swines flu, now a new coronavirus are all potentially serious but as far as global pandemics go, we - the world - have shown we have a decent capacity to handle this stuff.

What is concerning is China as a country is not reliable in reporting accurately on this stuff. So 3% mortality rate is very suspect to me and I would doubt that number unless independently verified.

 

[gaussian]

I am going to tag this post, because when this thing fizzles out, clowns like you will claim that there was never a prediction that it would kill 10s of millions.

BTW, they made the same claim about SARS, MERS, Bird Flu, and Swine Flu.

Notice I said if it goes pandemic.

Read the post again, smoothbrain.