When this is all sorted out and we have the spare test kits and a couple years to monitor COVID-19, we're going to find that infected virtually everyone and it has a mortality rate close to the common flu of about 0.1%.
In addition, and we'll find this out a lot sooner than later, we will find that all this economy killing stuff: the self-quarantining, social-distancing, school closings, restaurant closings, daycare closings.... we're going to find that it didn't do anything to "flatten the curve" in any substantial manner.
So we are currently killing our economy and reducing our ability to respond to the impending needs for a snake-oil cure that apparently nearly every world leader has purchased.
You guys. Im 99% sure corona virus was in the US BEFORE anyone was freaking out. Like in january. Where I work, we had a flu sweep through the place. EVERYONE caught it. It spread so fast it just seemed strange even at the time. It lasted 1-2 weeks and had a nasty cough and chest congestion and a low to mid grade fever. The only reason no one was freaking out was because there wasnt any way to tell it was anything but the flu.
There are all kinds of common viruses other than the flu.
Same here. I was out for the last week of December, and all of January. We had like 3 different flus go through our house, and they were all different. My son got a weird respiratory one, I got one that I thought my asthma had come back. That one wiped us out. We just slept it off because we had no energy to do anything else. Three, four days later we started moving again.