corona virus
Should all cinema halls and concert halls,,gatherings and lectures be banned from operation to prevent spread of Corona
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SW-User
People are overreacting to a virus that has a 3.4% mortality rate (while the flu has a 9 to 10% mortality rate). Don't live in fear, that's what the media wants.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@SW-User Nothing to do with 'survival rates per capita'. It's to do with unnecessary risk.
LeopoldBloom · M
@SW-User The flu doesn't have anything close to that level of mortality. Out of 32 million people with the flu, around 18,000 die; a mortality rate of around 0.05%. So you're off by a factor of 2000. While coronavirus probably won't have a 3.4% mortality rate, the effect of millions of people who don't die but are too sick to go to work is going to have a huge effect on the economy. Already, hotels, airlines, convention planners, etc. are feeling the hit, not to mention companies that rely on shipments from China.