Why All The Fuss About Corona?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-millions-of-britons-will-need-to-contract-covid-19-for-herd-immunity-11956793
It's apparently going to return again and again and in order to defend we have to catch it anyway.

[Gromit]

// Hysteria whipped up by the mainstream media. They are loving it.
There is so much 'fake news' about it is almost unbelievable. //

There have been 5,438 deaths and we are just at the start. That is the equivalent of 30 Boeing 737 aircraft crashing.

[emmie]

and as been pointed out over 8,000 died last year from flu... where is the fuss about that i wonder...

[NickorWan]

As I understand it, the flu virus at its peak was responsible for the hospitalisation of less than 1 in 10,000 of the UK population at any one time. Fears are that the number will be far greater with Covid-19 – a number of specialists say there will be so many more that there won’t be anywhere to treat some who are very ill. If that is true it is worth a fuss.

[Gromit]

17,000 people died of flu last year, and there is a fuss about it. That is why 25 million people have by offered free vaccination by their Doctor this year.

[ummmm]

There's a fuss about the flu every year!

[LadyCG]

Why would coronavirus return year after year? SARS didn't and neither did MERS.

[Gromit]

SARS and MERS weren’t Pandemics, and they were contained. Coronavirus has critical mass. There are a lot more people carrying it to pass it on.

[Gromit]

SARS infected 8000 people
Corona has infected 148,051 (and is just starting).

[Peter Pedant]

ten deaths today
so yeah what IS all the fuss about
Nigh will find ten a subject to laugh about....I am sure that would be because it cd be more - a thousand or perhaps babies involved

so everything on AB is er "normal"

[mushroom25]

// a thousand or perhaps babies involved //

babies, unlikely. based on data from 3 days ago (the newest I could find) the mortality rate increases with age, from 0% for 0-10, 0.2% 10-19 ans 19-39, 0.4% 40-50 and so on up to 14% for over 80. the mortality rate is likely exaggerated because mild cases are likely unreported.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-11/covid-19-risk-healthy-young-person

[mushroom25]

oh. the question i was answering has now gone, so my answer now makes no sense.

[Apc2604]

georgesgirl //gness my daughter is heavily pregnant and she is like me, not worried about this virus at all and laughs at all the scaremongering, as I do.//

Would daughter still be laughing now that a woman with the disease has given birth and the baby has it too?

I am not panicking, but I admit I'm concerned. I'm over 70 with health issues. My husband is fit and well but has had a heart attack.