This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
In my state, only 7 confirmed cases. Yet there have been nearly 4 times that many deaths from Influenza this year, without causing panic, shutdowns, hoarding etc...
I guess the moral of the story is make sure your illness has a scary name so people will panic more.
A health care panic like this takes a lot of planning and coordination.
Gates, Bloomberg, Johns Hopkins — October 2019.
Yeah sort of the devil you know situation. It is a new virus so people are losing their minds, while flu has killed more but we know what that is and it’s not scary and the media isn’t pushing it down our throats