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SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: 0xdeadbeef on February 27, 2020, 08:03:22 pm ---While all of this becomes somewhat terrifying admittedly, it's important to keep the numbers in perspective. E.g. in Germany there are currently < 50 confirmed cases (numbers of the tracking sites are still quite old and vary around 26 but there were 20 new cases recently), thankfully still without any fatality. The number of confirmed influenza cases for this season is around 100k though with 161 fatalities and nobody really cares.
In the influenza season 2017/18, 25k (!) people died (about 0.03% of the population) in Germany and nobody panicked about that. And still lots of people don't even care about influenza vaccination.
So, yes. it's a serious thing, maybe a bit more serious than influenza if it really spreads worldwide but it's not the apocalypse. Just as with influenza, most people that die of it are either old or suffer from a serious pre-existing illness.

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Also, let's not forget about ~40,000 traffic fatalities each year (USA) that we are completely OK with...
donotdespisethesnake:
"One person's death is a tragedy, a million deaths is just a statistic".

I hope it stays purely a statistic for you.
Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: 0xdeadbeef on February 27, 2020, 08:03:22 pm ---While all of this becomes somewhat terrifying admittedly, it's important to keep the numbers in perspective. E.g. in Germany there are currently < 50 confirmed cases

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   Germany today is China two months ago.  How is that for perspective?

  The public and the govenments in the US, Europe and the rest of the world should have already realized what is happening in China today is something that we're going to have to deal with in the very near future.

   If you need a reminder of how quickly this can spread and at what the medical and economic effects are just look at Italy or at South Korea over the last two weeks. And this virus is just getting started! 

    Think is this as being December 1917 and the 1918 Spanish flu is just beginning to be noticed.
Bud:

--- Quote from: 0xdeadbeef on February 27, 2020, 08:03:22 pm ---While all of this becomes somewhat terrifying admittedly, it's important to keep the numbers in perspective. E.g. in Germany there are currently < 50 confirmed cases (numbers of the tracking sites are still quite old an died (about 0.03% of the population) in Germany and nobody panicked about that. And still lots of people don't even care about influenza vaccination.

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Call us when coronavirus Death will knock Your door and let is know if ignorance and denial helped scare her away.
0xdeadbeef:
You guys really know how to turn a calm and rational statement into something coldhearted and misanthropic. Please try to read whole sentences or even paragraphs before trying to blame other people of a horrible attitude.
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