The wailing and gnashing about this is ridiculous. Yes people are going to die. They do every year during the cold and flu season. Hundreds of thousands of them. EVERY YEAR.
So far according to this site these are the stats. The final colum was added by me and is the percentage of total deaths from total cases.
So why the hysteria?
Seems to me it started in the USA where once again the media and Democrats joined forces to try and make Donald Trump look weak and unprepared. They have hyped this to levels of hysteria that have surpassed SARS and the Swine Flu overreactions.
Remember all the people that you knew that died from those? No? Me either.
Here in New Zealand its the reverse with the so called Right wetting their beds and shrieking that our Government is weak because it hasn't closed our borders.
Get over it. Don't close the world down, don't create a mass depression.
Go to work and school. Go shop if you need to.
And if you think you're coming down with something stay home and use your sick leave. That's what it's for.
Don't share it with the rest of us.
And WASH YOUR HANDS! With soap. For 30 seconds and dry for 20 seconds with a paper towel. Avoid air dryers.
