March 21st, 2020 at 8:02 AM
The whole world is going on a frenzy. When one nation goes on lockdown, the rest start to feel like they should. The thing about this one is that, yea, less people have died from it than have died from the flu. But at the same time, there are less than 300,000 confirmed cases, whereas the flu has had many, many times this amount.
It's hard to see the true scale of the coronavirus because we obviously cannot test for every case (and likely this won't be so for several more months). There are likely several unconfirmed cases for every confirmed one, but the death rate is still high compared to the flu. Likely lower than the 4% figure that we're afraid of because of the unconfirmed cases, but we just don't know yet. That's the problem. It's a completely unknown scenario. The real numbers and the true scale of this are completely unknown at this point.
It's hard to see the true scale of the coronavirus because we obviously cannot test for every case (and likely this won't be so for several more months). There are likely several unconfirmed cases for every confirmed one, but the death rate is still high compared to the flu. Likely lower than the 4% figure that we're afraid of because of the unconfirmed cases, but we just don't know yet. That's the problem. It's a completely unknown scenario. The real numbers and the true scale of this are completely unknown at this point.
