Talk of The Villages Florida - What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Quote:

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1724126)

Looks like it's time to add a little more rational perspective to this.

In an average year, according to the CDC, there are 36,000 US deaths and 500,000 worldwide deaths from influenza.
Coronavirus---US deaths = 9, all in the same adult facility in Washington State
Worldwide---?2-3000 depending on accuracy of Chinese statistics.

So, CNN, MSNBC, ABC etc., no, chicken little the sky is not falling

Also, I'm amazed the same people who are clamoring for an instant vaccine are probably the same ones that pass on their yearly flu shot

And now Fauci, whom you named as one of the experts on the president's team, is announcing that covid-19 is significantly more lethal than influenza. To quote him:

“I mean, people always say, well, the flu does this, the flu does that,” Fauci said. “The flu has a mortality of 0.1 percent. This has a mortality rate of 10 times that. That’s the reason I want to emphasize we have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this."

And yet we've only done 9,000 tests.