waltc3:

it's not a Flu strain such as SARS, MERS, SWINE

um... SARS and MERS are both coronaviruses.... lol. both of them are literally coded SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV

waltc3:

I feel like I'm watching a Twilight Zone episode. In the US, 50 (fifty) people have died over the past 4-5 months from what has been attributed to COVID-19 infections, while during the same time frame 22,000+ Americans have expired from the common Flu this Flu season--yes, in the last 4-5 months. Many physicians in the US have bluntly stated that up to 80% of the people infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus could easily have already recovered and very possibly not even know they had it! That's because COVID-19 is a coronavirus strain, with light symptoms or even none!--it's not a Flu strain such as SARS, MERS, SWINE--who remembers Hong Kong flu? It's not viral pneumonia, either! Coronaviruses have until now caused common colds--all common colds are caused by coronaviruses. Yet the flu deaths are ignored--and people are panicking because of the very mild (by comparison) COVID-19 coronavirus. It's insane--I have to say I've never seen anything like it! The utter stupidity of the panic is depressing to behold--it makes you lose faith in man's ability to do and act rationally and logically. I will say, however, that in the US much of the ignorance and panic comes straight out of the press--if they don't lie outright then they certainly exaggerate ferociously. But not a single word about the Flu fatalities! It's as if they don't exist! Indeed, all of the COVID-19 coronavirus strain deaths globally in every country since the beginning of the COVID-19 debacle in China--are but a small fraction of what the Flu has claimed in just the US alone! The global number of flu fatalities since the start of the current flu season must be huge--dwarfing COVID-19 entirely--but ignored. The (D)s in the US are trying to politicize COVID-19, as usual. It's all crazy. Real mad hatter stuff!

That's not true, Italy have been completely snowed under with Corona patients in intensive care...working ridiculous shifts and beyond breaking point...the acute effect on the health services that could end up with completely inadequate care being given for those that find themselves admitted to hospital - that's the the problem. The preventative steps that we're all taking now (panic as you call it) is a way of slowing down the rate of infection so that hospitals don't get snowed under to a point where people aren't being treated properly.

Robbo9999:

That's not true, Italy have been completely snowed under with Corona patients in intensive care...working ridiculous shifts and beyond breaking point...the acute effect on the health services that could end up with completely inadequate care being given for those that find themselves admitted to hospital - that's the the problem. The preventative steps that we're all taking now (panic as you call it) is a way of slowing down the rate of infection so that hospitals don't get snowed under to a point where people aren't being treated properly.

Yes and Spain and France are not far behind. This should not be taken lightly and that is a fact.

Netherwind:

Yea, for example I'd like to comment on what sykozis wrote below but debating about guns in the US is will backfire for sure. Therefore I feel it's best to let it rest.

My statement wasn't made to start a debate. There's really nothing to debate anyway. The first half is fact. People are free to take the second half as they see fit.... I live in the US, therefore the increased possibility of violence concerns me.