Wait, did you just interject and challenge my post to highlight your opinion that it's a "nothingburger"?
Stop wasting everyone's time. Your objection is pointless and unnecessary. The point of my post was to assert that politicization of this disease is stupid, and that it's overcoming all strategies of prevention. That means I'm criticizing not just the people who insist Trump is specifically to blame, or vice versa, but also the people who politicize the media's framing of the severity of the outbreak through a political lens for either side.
Nevertheless, maybe you need to catch up on the figures. The death rate is much higher than the flu, even if this is almost entirely the elderly and the previously sick, and the rate of infection is becoming more concerning even in the USA. People aren't being silly partisans by expressing a heightening level of concern over the numbers.
Madmick, respectfully, I'm not here to flame you or anyone or troll.
I did some calculations because people are ignoring some stuff about this virus. Assuming that it can even spread at the rate of past flu's, lets take a look at some math:
let get some things cleared up, the amount of people diagnosed with coronavirus may be underreported, like all diseases, so I'm going to omit these numbers.
I'm interested in the death to recovered ratio.
coronavirus death and recovered ratio in china, 3158 to 61631, roughly 5.1% that get hopitalized, will die
lets do our last pandemic, H1N1, 12469 to 274304, roughly 4.5% that got hospitalized for H1N1, died
H1N1 had 60.8 million cases, with a 0.02 final fatality rate..... and coronavirus is have 0.6% stronger than H1N1.
let me know where I made a mistake.
sources for my numbers:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21342903
not sure why people are ignoring these numbers, but the recovery ratio is staggering, and trending higher. the recovery ratio is extremely high in china as time goes by, that's why I called it a nothingburger.