Subj : Re: Pandemic
To   : Gerhard Strangar
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Tue Mar 17 2020 01:05 am

 GS> Why? I don't understand the panic. Everybody is talking about Covid-19,
 GS> while at the same time "good old" Influenza is killing about ten times
 GS> as many people - at least in Germany. In winter 2018/2019 we had 25,000
 GS> people dying from Influenza, but no special measures were taken. So far,
 GS> we've had 16 deaths from Corona and people act as if it were the end of
 GS> the world. At the same time, more than 200 died from Influenza and noone
 GS> talks about that. The Corona virus is spreading so fast, because 80% of
 GS> the people don't even notice when they have it!

Coronavirus is anywhere from 10-30x as deadly and spreads much more easily
than the flu. The panic is necessary to contain it.

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