<div dir="ltr">Or that we generally don't die from the common flu. While that isn't the case with this. It might turn out to be a SARS thing (sureal, and scary, but we made a vacine). <div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 4:09 PM Russell Standish <<a href="mailto:lists@hpcoders.com.au">lists@hpcoders.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Flu is already pandemic. COVID-19 looks like it will go pandemic, but<br>
maybe quarantine will buy us enough time for vaccine. COVID-19 has<br>
twice the mortality of flu, but don't know how transmissible it is. I<br>
currently get a bad flu about once every 5 years, and even then I'm<br>
probably only confined to bed for a day or so. Must be hell for the<br>
more vulnerable amongst us though.<br>
<br>
So, no - I'm not overly afraid of it, but it does have an impact on<br>
everyday life (eg quarantine provisions are impacting this workshop<br>
I'm running right now).<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:21:00AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:<br>
> I'm reading an NYTimes piece on the Coronavirus containing:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> But one of the attendees, a public health student, had had enough.<br>
> Exasperated, she rattled off a set of statistics.<br>
> <br>
> The virus had killed about 1,100 worldwide and infected around a dozen in<br>
> the United States. Alarming, but a much more common illness, influenza,<br>
> kills about 400,000 people every year, including 34,200 Americans last flu<br>
> season and 61,099 the year before.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I had looked that up previously and was also puzzled .. Flu is way more deadly<br>
> .. those numbers are staggering.<br>
> <br>
> The article was less on the mortality rates etc but on: <br>
> Coronavirus \u2018Hits All the Hot Buttons\u2019 for How We Misjudge Risk<br>
> .. and goes on to explain the lopsided response.<br>
> <br>
> BTW: the Flu numbers were a wakeup call! I hope we all have one!<br>
> <br>
> -- Owen<br>
> <br>
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