Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Gerhard Strangar
From : Richard Falken
Date : Tue Mar 17 2020 11:27 am

  Re: Re: Pandemic
  By: Gerhard Strangar to Ryan Fantus on Tue Mar 17 2020 07:20 am

 >
 > Why? I don't understand the panic. Everybody is talking about Covid-19,
 > while at the same time "good old" Influenza is killing about ten times as
 > many people - at least in Germany. In winter 2018/2019 we had 25,000 people
 > dying from Influenza, but no special measures were taken. So far, we've had
 > 16 deaths from Corona and people act as if it were the end of the world. At
 > the same time, more than 200 died from Influenza and noone talks about that.
 > The Corona virus is spreading so fast, because 80% of the people don't even
 > notice when they have it!
 >
 >

Hello,

I think they are afraid hospital capacity will be overwelmed, since the disease spreads so quickly even if it is not extremely severe.

There are also reports that it can cause permanent lung damage in some people who recovers, so that is concerning.

In my opinion, logistics and panic is still worse than the virus itself. We in Spain declared State of Emergency and the country is in lockdown. Business are not allowed to open and people is not allowed on the streets, that sort of thing. In about two days of lockdown we are already seeing small firms and familiar business filling bankrupcy, and people getting fired. I suspect people losing their jobs and their roofs is going to be a bigger problem that the disease by a long shot.

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