Spanish flu was just a flu and the worst pandemic since the bubonic plague. It killed 5% of the world population, infected 30% and killed more people that year than WW1 and probably put a stop to that war. The morbidity of this is way higher with a really long incubation period. and if you think the severity is lower than you're probably buying into Chinese propaganda. Back at the beginning it was 17 dead with 400 infected. That's nearly 5% fatal as reported by CHINA before it has even run it's course on those 400. The only real hope is that only the bad cases are reported, that is why it is spreading so quickly and why it is so fatal, because China is kind of the land of caring for your grandparents and really good soup. Seeing as how it is pretty clearly going to spread far and wide, I hope the number of videos of people cracking their heads open on the pavement is lower than the deaths. No government or government entity will EVER overblow a pandemic and that includes our own. The flu kills so many people every year. Ebola has shit on the flu.
Spanish flu was just a flu and the worst pandemic since the bubonic plague. It killed 5% of the world population, infected 30% and killed more people that year than WW1 and probably put a stop to that war. The morbidity of this is way higher with a really long incubation period. and if you think the severity is lower than you're probably buying into Chinese propaganda. Back at the beginning it was 17 dead with 400 infected. That's nearly 5% fatal as reported by CHINA before it has even run it's course on those 400. The only real hope is that only the bad cases are reported, that is why it is spreading so quickly and why it is so fatal, because China is kind of the land of caring for your grandparents and really good soup. Seeing as how it is pretty clearly going to spread far and wide, I hope the number of videos of people cracking their heads open on the pavement is lower than the deaths. No government or government entity will EVER overblow a pandemic and that includes our own. The flu kills so many people every year. Ebola has shit on the flu.