I'm with you. There are numbers between 1 and 100 for a reason. It's so we can calibrate scale. Getting 19% on your math test, for example, is qualitatively different than getting 91%. The consequences of the former is a world apart from the consequences of the latter.
Given the current reactions to the Coronavirus, one might think we were dealing with the Bubonic Plague ... with an expected mortality rate of 1/3 to 1/2 the population.
We're not.
I have never seen such an over-reaction to anything in my life. And as the plummeting stock markets attest, if we don't soon get a grip we're going to create the very disaster we're trying to avoid.
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I guess the main thing people are scared about with this thing is that it's unknown, and we don't really know enough about it to have any kind of effective treatment or cure, and vaccines are likely 12-18 months off.
A friend of my wife's — who's an ex MIT biochemist — says she and a group of friends have been trying to isolate some wisdom about COVID-19 and what it doesn't "like" and so far there seems to be a correlation between people taking substantial Vitamin C and Melatonin supplements, and resistance to becoming infected. Not a "fix," by any means, but certainly an ounce of prevention.
It's definitely not like the bubonic plague, or even like the Spanish flu of 1918-19, which isn't to say we shouldn't take it seriously, but the overreaction is crazy.
Greetings beloved and totally agreed with your logic here!
One needs to get to the root of the panic!
Who and why somebody wrote the initial spark that lit the fire?
Blessings!