Most are worried about catching this virus, rather than what happens if/when you catch it. It’s extremely contagious, just like the common cold. However, it’s also just as bad as catching the cold, or flu, for all of the population that isn’t normally susceptible to mortality from either of these ailments. It’s bad for the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems, just like the cold and flu. When you hear of a person dying of natural causes, this is usually what it is.... they caught something their body couldn’t deal with, but something that is mostly minor for the rest of the population.
You have to ask yourself what you think is worse here.... an unprecedented impact on the world economy driven by fear rather than actual basis, or spreading what is effectively another version of the common cold or flu. The panic is the real thing to be afraid of, and the lack of leadership, all over the world, only makes it worse.
Its quite possible, likely probable, that the hysteria created around this causes more death than the virus itself. Hospitals flooded with people with cold symptoms, who would normally self treat at home, versus the truly sick that need medical attention that’s no longer available as a result of this panic.
There’s no good answer here but the bottom line is this showed us everything that’s wrong with the “system” and we have no reasonable plan for dealing with any of this. Everyone across the world is taking a shoot from the hip approach and it seems a lot of the decisions are based on what someone else has done rather than a true, scientific, risk-based measure. This would literally be 28 Days Later if it was really a 50% or 90% mortality rate. That’s the scariest part about this whole thing.
We’ve removed literally trillions of dollars from the worlds economy with even more on the way as restaurants are forced to be closed - who’s going to pay that waiters rent when they don’t work for 2 weeks, or the other bills that pile up? This is absurd and anyone thinking there’s just going to be a government bailout is drinking Jim Jones koolaid.