the numbers vs media reaction

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[–]magnora7 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah and that coronavirus number is doubling every 3 days, so we're already up to 40k deaths in the few days since that chart was made: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

And in about 8 more days it'll pass the seasonal flu in deaths, and in about 6 days after that it'll be halfway down the list and pass traffic fatalities, and 6 days after that over a million people will be dead from it.

In total it's expected about 1-2 million people will die from this based on current growth patterns.

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Al Bartlett

[–]fred_red_beans 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I guess ultimately, we'll see. My sense is that this is a planned control tactic more than disease response.

In 2017 the WHO reported up to 650 000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year

https://www.worldometers.info/ also reports that:

  • 3,221,917 Communicable disease deaths this year
  • 120,664 Seasonal flu deaths this year
  • 1,240,694 Deaths caused by smoking this year
  • 620,740 Deaths caused by alcohol this year

but we have yet to lock down the planet due to flu, smoking, or alcohol.

2,000,000 deaths / 7,700,000,000 world population = 0.026% death of world population

[–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's because ppl aren't susceptible to The panic over flu virus, epidemic or not.