We'll be fine.
While that's true young people do get sick and do need to be hospitalized and our current healthcare system cannot handle all these sick people. I'm also worried about the economic effect of all these people getting sick and countries shutting down for weeks or months.
You forgot a group of people that don't have developed immune systems: Babies. For the next few months parents will have to quarantine themselves as best they can against their own newborns, lest the kids catch the disease by accident.
Aren't they all shut down?
Your constant insistence on calling it the "Wuhan Flu" is the reason why many people are automatically associating it with everything Chinese. Chinese restaurants and businesses run by people of Chinese descent are getting hit hard because of the association*, even though they may have had no contact with China in years and are at no more increased risk to catch or spread the disease
"Primarily." That doesn't mean there is 0% chance. I assume you're hale and hearty somewhere around the prime of your life. You could still catch it and die. Lower risk does not mean no risk.
... umm. No.
Again, not a flu.
No.
Here is a popular-level summary of the data I was referring to. Here is another popular level summary which details related issues.
Yeah, no. The data we've seen very much does not support this assertion.
I don't fucking remember European governments intimidating and vanishing doctors who dared to speak about the problem, destroying the evidence the virus existed and doing ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING for months as the outbreak ravaged their countries so much the web was flooded with videos of people falling over on the streets (and denying that happened to boot)
Your vehement defense of the myriad failures of Chinese government despite all the facts and logic, as if you took their propaganda as gospel truth, is a good indication of that.
umm, don't hunted mammals go through a test for prion disease? (or at least wild game should be tested for it) Granted that doesn't fuck you up immediately...
That and there seems to be a pattern of sorts. SARS, Swine Flu, Ebola, Zika, Corona. All appearing in the last two decades. It doesn't help that research has confirmed that places like the Tibetan Ice Sheets have ancient viruses and the like. Now, they aren't human transferable, yet. There is a chance they could mutate but it is a small chance. If only there weren't myriad of them, yeah, we are going to be dealing with this for a while.
Society as a whole and the economy, specially with the vast majority of deaths being the elderly and the otherwise vulnerable will be more than fine. After the disease runs its course, the panic dies down expect a boom and quite likely for per capita stastics to be actually better than they were before the disease hit. At a terrible cost, yes, but less people, specially people who in general are not and will not become productive (anymore). That's not a judgement of value. It's awful that they die, and they aren't a "burden" that we need to get rid of, but they are mostly consumers of the world's production, which, in very gross and simplified. terms, there will be more left of a nearly same sized cake for everyone else, so to speak.
I don't disagree. You'd have to be one particularly vicious Machiavellian psychopath (or have the dispassionate observation of being born several centuries removed from the experience) to consider what's happening *positive*, but historically these sorts of things do usually result in the society which rises from the ashes being stronger than what came before.
Huh... that's actually kinda clever....Shit, you know that $1000+ aid that they're sending out? It's looking like it'll be coming from next years tax return so we could end up owing money.
