maybe shorter time from infection or different genotype here??
i see your point: if it's really that bad, why aren't more people very sick or dead?
we can't trust the chinese for accurate data on attack rate or death rate, so we watch canada to see how rapidly it spreads and what happens to those infected. as noted mortality rate is not a good measure of the danger of an infectious disease with a long (to those wanting to know) injury/convalesce period; too many people who could either die or recover to make the numbers meaningful now.
sky is falling vs. buy tin foil futures. take your pick, the wheel's still in spin.
btw, i think ex-texan has a clue or two.......
What I laugh at are the ones who keep saying, "Boy, if several million folks get this, it would overwhelm our health care system!" Yes, and that would also happen if meteors all destroyed half the hospitals in the US at the same time. There have been about 40 cases in the US, no deaths. I don't think those numbers would even overwhelm the smallest hospital in the country. Lots of the US cases haven't even -needed- hospitalization.
I know this is a nasty bug. I just don't see it wiping out a good chunk of civilization. And if we trust "projections", well hey, tell me definitively what the stock market's gonna do in the next 6 months and I'll kiss you full on the lips. (no tongue :)