Subj : Pandemic
To   : Ryan Fantus
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Tue Mar 17 2020 09:02 pm

Hello Ryan,

>   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.

More like 60x as deadly.

Global rate for concluded cases has reached 6%, with 94% surviving
- that is 60x higher than the death rate of the seasonal flu (0.1%).

--Lee

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