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Originally Posted by Major
If 150,000 people died of H1N1 then 5,000,000 people were infected given the 0.03% death rate. Potentially these numbers could be tripled. The high death rate associated with the coronavirus is skewed because of older people.
I don’t remember the same hysteria with any other pandemic. Last year 80,000 people in the U.S. died of the flu. It was an especially bad year. I don’t remember any new coverage about this. That’s because we understand the risk.
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You can’t compare it to the flu. We have a vaccine for the flu and we also have products like Tamiflu that we can take if we become sick with the flu.This is not the case with coronavirus. There is no vaccine yet.
So we have to do what we can do to prevent it from spreading as much as possible. We have to think of others.