Tell that to all the people who have died.
I can’t, they are dead...
do you want me to say something to people that died this year from common flu, as well?
Jokes aside, you all mention numbers and percentages, but this is not how one analyses data. There are other properties that need to be taken into account. For example, in Italy. Last time I read 11 people died. The vast majority of them (if not all, the article didn’t have info on all cases) were older than 80 years old with underlying conditions. Perhaps a common cold could have killed them as well.
A few years ago, I remember countries, at least in Europe, spending millions of euros to buy vaccines for a similar situation. Those vaccines were never used, and is unclear whether they could do anything, even if it wasn’t a false alarm. Pharmaceutical companies of course got those millions, regardless of whether their vaccines were used or not.
So, as a reply to another comment, no I don’t think it’s me who has lost his moral compass, but there certainly are people who have.
Precaution measures need to be taken. No doubt about that. But sometimes when I read the news I feel that, in most cases, the writer is actually excited about “more people died“ or “got infected” or “the virus is now spreading in another country” etc and that annoys me. On the other hand, I also read about the virus being a terrorist attack and that makes me laugh. So, there are two sides...
