When we get 8000 dead here in the US from coronavirus we will just have caught up with the regular flu which never makes the six oclock news cycle. So far we are working on one and flu season will be over in a month or so. This stuff is no worse than the regular flu. Almost everyone who catches it makes a full recovery. If you can’t get 10%-15% mortality its hard to get an epidemic going. The Spanish flu was 10%-20%. Coronavirus is what 2%? Its not an epidemic. Not gonna happen.
I’ve been downloading first hand accounts of CV survivors. Most say it isn’t as bad as the flu. Some say it is like a heavy cold.
And that last year I looked at, fewer than 2000 people actually died of 'the flu'.
I've gotten pneumonia from seasonal allergies. Had I died from that pneumonia I'd have been included in the 'flu death' stats.
The Spanish flu was ~2.5%, have no idea where you got 20%.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article
"An estimated one third of the world's population (or ≈500 million persons) were infected and had clinically apparent illnesses (1,2) during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. The disease was exceptionally severe. Case-fatality rates were >2.5%, compared to <0.1% in other influenza pandemics "
So CFR (case fatality rate) of the spanish flu and this bug are roughly equivalent. And by 'almost everyone who catches it makes a full recovery' you mean the 80% 'mild' cases. The dude in CA will likely die if he's not given that experimental drug. It may be too late already as he was intubated with this days ago.
That's 8000 deaths in 15 million cases. Using the optimistic death rate from the coronavirus, 15 million cases would lead to 375,000 deaths. Don't you think that's something for the government to take steps to deal with?