Where were you pearl clutchers back in 2009-2010?
Remember this:
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm
Nope, in your hysterical minds 4,900 deaths from COVID-19 is much more serious!
You people are drinking the Fake News koolaid and asking for more!
why do you come here if it makes you so upset?
you should find a place that gives you serenity.
I posted the 2009 thread here. You see a lot of the same fearmongering then as well....and guess what? Most of us are still here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278371/posts
Containment is what will keep this thing in check long enough to allow countermeasures to be developed and deployed.
The only hysterical people here are the butflubros.
Stop creating panic about people panicking about CV - they are not, for the most part. But you guys are making the situation worse, as if you want to bring about the very crisis you decry. Once the people you influenced realize you were full of it and that it is now too late, *then*, they will actually panic.
It’s always the-sky-is-falling with you Meta Concern Trolls, you think the sky is falling because you think we think the sky is falling. But we don’t. We just want to be ready for the things we see already happening around the world.
Not so much the number of deaths, but that the number of serious cases could pile on in a relatively short period of time, should we go the “flu bro” route, overwhelming our health systems like in Italy. Fortunately, our average age is lower and we have a good health baseline, in spite of all the obesity, so I suspect percentage of serious cases will be lower, no more than 10 percent, IMO.