Only 10 years ago a different strain of virus, that also jumped from animals to humans infected over 60 million Americans, with over 13,000 deaths. How many businesses closed? How much time did the news devote to reporting it? H1N1 didn’t get hysterical news coverage. People didn’t hoard toilet paper. We have had roughly 100,000 cases of the Coronavirus - remember 60,000,000 Americans got H1N1. And early on they talked about the fact that H1N1 was much deadlier than the flu. But when all the dust settled and more testing was done, the numbers ended up being pretty similar. Over 80% of the people that contract the Coronavirus will have little to no symptoms. The majority of them will not be tested, at least in the short run. Their results aren’t figured into the mortality rate. We should take precautions, but we shouldn’t be hysterical.
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