Gravity cat wrote...
The media has caused an unnecessary panic again. They did it for Mad Cow Disease, SARS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, and now this. All I fucking hear about on the news right now is about this virus. They all petered out fairly quickly thanks to health efforts.
The worst affected area is China, where it originated from. The mortality rate for actually contracting the virus is extremely low. The infection can be treated and fought off, with higher chances of survival if you're younger; at least 48,540 people have recovered from it. Source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Does suck if you're italian right now though, they make up around half of the current most recent deaths.
Edit: Statistics have changed but there's still a substantial amount compared to the amount of cases there are.
It's great that damage has been kept minimal by all those involved, people are taking this seriously, and I can understand the need to be extremely wary of a new virus that can kill, and it's good there's a cure coming up. But the extensive media coverage on this just bewilders me. I guess news outlets have nothing better to report on right now.
Haha, this aged terribly.