And "the flu" does not hospitalize 20% of those diagnosed, nor kill 50% of those hospitalized. Nor does the number of those diagnosed with the flu double every four days.
If one does not consider that a signiticant difference, there is little hope.
Please enlighten us to the source of your “facts.” That would be a 10% death rate...
How about this? From
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ Italy
Coronavirus Cases:
47,021
Deaths:
4,032
Recovered:
5,129
Looks pretty darned close to 10% to me.
Confirmed cases. With the shortage of test kits available the actual number infected would be much higher than confirmed cases they list. Therefore death rate would be much less than 10%.
Cable news makes money from one source. Advertisers.
Cost of advertising rises in correlation with the number of viewers. Sensationalism brings viewership up.
The media has every reason to blow this out of proportion.
Couple that with their undying hatred for Trump and desperation to unseat him in an election year and you have what we're seeing now. A dangerous situation being used to push an agenda. No doubt about it, measures need taken, but crashing the global economy seems a pretty extreme measures to save even a few hundred thousand lives
