Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

John2290 said:

Nautilus said:

The last big outbreak we had was the Swine Flu.It was estimated that the number of infected was between 700 million to 1.4 billion people.1.4 billion!!!!

And yet we survived that."Only"(relative to the population of the world) around 200k people died though, according to my 10 second research.I'm not saying that 200k is insignificant, but you guys are talking about millions dying.It's not happening.

We have been through worse diseases than this.While the Swine flu was less dangerous, it's infection rate was far higher and we already forgot about this.People have a really bad memory and keep forgetting that not only this shit happens regularly, but we always manage to beat it without it destroying humanity.

So yes, go take a walk, drink a few cups of Coke and calm yourself.The death toll will never reach the million, and probably wont even come close to the scale of damage that the Swine Flu did.

You can call me a cold person, a shit person or just egoistic piece of shit.You can tell yourself whatever you want, as long as that calms you down.Statiscally speaking, you wont die, and neither will your dad, so make damn sure that after this is behind us, you still have money to pay your bills.

Yes. It's not happening if people don't go out infecting ohter people, take the scoial distancing seriously, hunker down for a while and not continue life as usual. The numbers are what they are and if the cap is over 3.5 billion at the WHO's lower estimate then the potential deaths is what it is until it runs out of suseptible people to kill or the hospitals can't cope and the numbers spike. A lot of people will still die over time however as we wait for a vaccine, this is the unfortunate truth. 

I don't know why I keep repeating it but I'm just replying to say, I hope you're right and the facts are wrong. I'm literally praying for that to be the case or the measures work. In reality it will be somewhere in the middle and hopefully far more towards your Swine flu comparison, all things being well. 

I just don't want people to panic and I don't want to create another problem trying to solve the first problem.

But yeah, at this point I just hope for the best.Because at the end, while we may disagree, we all want the best for all of us.That's why we are all so worried.