Yes but we have also to consider that italian people over 65 is almost 20% of the entire population, while in China only 10%... literally the half. This gap is more evident if we consider people over 80 (1/2% China, 6/7% Italy), which is the most-hitted part of the population by Covid... Furthermore nations' declared deaths by Covid follows very different standards; the problem is if the deaths are "for" or "accelerated by" it, infact most of the deaths are terminally-ill patients...

Unfortunately this will be the same reason that will lead to numerous deaths in the other western-nations...

So you suggest stopping public transportation? Do you know how many eldery people use public transportation to do grocery shopping or visit the doctor?

That's basically just another way to kill them.

I hardly think he would lie.Not only because I trust him, but because it would be a short lived lie, one way or another.

It would be stupid to lie, in another words.

Did you read the link?

Myth: You're waaaay less likely to get this than the flu 

Not necessarily. To estimate how easily a virus spreads, scientists calculate its "basic reproduction number," or R0 (pronounced R-nought). R0 predicts the number of people who can catch a given bug from a single infected person, Live Science previously reported. Currently, the R0 for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, is estimated at about 2.2, meaning a single infected person will infect about 2.2 others, on average. By comparison, the flu has an R0 of 1.3. 

Myth: The coronavirus is less deadly than the flu

So far, it appears the coronavirus is more deadly than the flu. However, there's still a lot of uncertainty around the mortality rate of the virus. The annual flu typically has a mortality rate of around 0.1% in the U.S. So far, there's a 0.05% mortality rate among those who caught the flu virus in the U.S. this year, according to the CDC.

In comparison, recent data suggests that COVID-19 has a mortality rate more than 20 times higher, of around 2.3%, according to a study published Feb. 18 by the China CDC Weekly. The death rate varied by different factors such as location and an individual's age, according to a previous Live Science report. 

But these numbers are continuously evolving and may not represent the actual mortality rate. It's not clear if the case counts in China are accurately documented, especially since they shifted the way they defined cases midway through, according to STAT News. There could be many mild or asymptomatic cases that weren't counted in the total sample size, they wrote. 


There could be many more mild cases around that skew the current death rate estimates, but that won't make it any better, probably even worse, since that means it has spread far further already. The death rate also depends on the availability of respirators to keep people alive. The critical care rate is still very high. (9%)

It's not me he would lie to.It would be the brasilian people.

And what I meant by the lie being short lived: He would get sick if he was infected and then finally hospitalized. If he disapeared from the public one or two weeks from now(because he would be under treatment), everyone would know that he had the disease and would know he lied.Which would be even worse.Either way people would find out.That's why it's stupid to lie about this, and why there is no reason to believe he lied.

Idiots, everywhere. I have really good health, always did, but my mom is very sick and has been for a long time. If she gets it, that's it for her. Same with others in the family who have severe asthma or are taking chemo injections on a weekly basis. In my native country (Norway), they're taking rather big measures to prevent spread, all clubs and bars are closed, as are all schools and all those who can are required to work from home. Meanwhile, here in Sweden, they're not really doing anything and the head of the whole Corona effort group is a complete tool, to top it off there's already a crisis in the healthcare system and they're understaffed as is, without a pandemic. To make matters even worse, the man in charge of national crisis management is a notorious buffoon whose main accomplishments have been a previous bout as head of police, where he ruined the whole police corps nationwide by injecting stupid ideology into the occupation and then he totally fumbled the efforts to cope with the massive forest fires a few years back. Sweden is heading for a lot of trouble, and soon.

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.

Spain now with 2000 infections in a day, only 2nd to Italy.
Norway overtaking South Korea in cases per capita, again only 2nd to Italy.
UK trying to get back into the top 10 with only a few cases missing for #11 but Norway's probably not giving up on #10.
Kinda crazy how Japan is getting overtaken by more and more countries.

Not comparable to the Swine Flu:
Take social distancing seriously.

Considering the incubation period, the crisis lasting somewhere around 1 to 2 months was expected.