There's no "they". That's one guy, making a paid appearance to the media.
We don't know enough about the virus to predict almost anything about it and are learning more every day.
I feel like people have already made up their mind about this by reading some extremely poor sources rather than bodies like the WHO so are going to panic no matter what people say.
The best option here would be for me to come back in a month and we'll reexamine the comment. 625,000 is literally insane.
Because World War 2 killed 3% of the general population.
The coronavirus, in a single country, has killed 5% of infected people and elder people or those with pre-existing conditions are majorly overrepresented in infection rates.
>World War II killed 3% of the human population, and that's where we're headed if we don't stop it.
This isn't just wrong. It's irresponsible for you to be saying these types of absolutely incorrect things.
I'm not sure where this level of panic is coming from.
Numbers are about to spike everywhere pretty much no matter what anybody does, because better testing and funding has become available.
Quarantining an entire continent, and even worse than this badly doing it, seems to be an astonishing overreaction. The average age of death for coronavirus victims is 83. The mortality rate seems to be as low as 0.6% in South Korea or as high as 5% in Italy. Italy is especially vulnerable because it has the oldest population in Europe which is one of the factors that is leading to the 5% figure from there.
It is not an End of Days zombie apocalypse.
I recently watched a speech by a US mayor which essentially said that the panic over Corona is going to do much more damage to people than the actual virus and I tend to agree. Simple quarantining measures mixed with best practices for infection control until we have more information about the virus seems perfectly fine. Blowing up the global economy is complete overkill and is a typical move from an administration whose response to topics are either to ignore them or sledgehammer them.
I also was around for this but my favourite thing about it wasn't the resignation of "it wasn't a big deal" from the public but the mockery of people at the time talking about 2038 as alarmist nutjobs. It was not going to be a issue in 2038 because we'd all be running 64 bit quantum computers by then.
18 years away now and an absolute ton of affected systems are still out there and mission critical.
These type pf issues, from Corona to 2038 to climate change, always remind me of that Homer Simpson quote.
"Pfft, that's a problem for future Homer. Man I don't envy that guy."
We don't know enough about the virus to predict almost anything about it and are learning more every day.
I feel like people have already made up their mind about this by reading some extremely poor sources rather than bodies like the WHO so are going to panic no matter what people say.
The best option here would be for me to come back in a month and we'll reexamine the comment. 625,000 is literally insane.