Mortality rate from Flu is about 0.1%, bad flue 0.2%, Spanish flu about 1% (but partially due to medicine and nutrition in 1918).
Covid-19 has mortality rate around 3%, even if it declines to 1% as testing increases the denominator, that's 5 to 10 times the flu.
60 million Americans got the swine flu, 12,500 or so died, so 0.02% mortality.
If 60 million Americans get the Coronavirus, we may be talking 600,000 deaths.
Mortality rate of flu is 0.1% in the US which has the most advanced healthcare in the world. Covid isn't killing anything like that number of those aged under the age of 60.
The point Iron is trying to make is that if you hadn't given covid a name, then there would be no panic right now. Normal flu spreads like wild fire every year. Up to 600,000 people die world wide from normal flu every single year, hence why we have flu jabs for the over 50s every year.
This is a media frenzy which is generating huge incomes for......yes media. Some people are going to make huge amounts of money from this panic, super markets are already lapping it up, anyone producing commodities.
People are idiots and treating this like a SARs pandemic. Now that was a real problem. When you get to 10% mortality rate amongst all ages then you can cause mass panic.
Put the procedures in place, wash your f***ing hands and stop buying everything in sight. People are going to die because idiots are panic buying. There is already a shortage of baby formula, nappies and wipes.
Good job human race....