Thread by @xtrabiggg

A thread on #COVID19

Just a question on the Coronavirus: How can we know the accurate death rate if until about a week ago there was no accurate test (or ANY tests)? Also, there is still no accurate means of determining the number of people ACTUALLY infected...
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...as virologists and health experts tell us that most of the people infected with #nCoV2019 show few or no symptoms whatsoever.

Doesn't this mean that the 'death rate' percentage cited by a breathless media is based on a woefully incomplete dataset, and...

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...the ACTUAL death rate would therefore be MUCH lower than the figures being touted?

Also, if the death rate WAS higher than SARS, MERS, and H1N1- wouldn't there already be a massive amount of deaths in the US? So far in the US, the number of deaths is <100.

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The average flu season has between 20 and 70,000 deaths. By this metric, we should already be seeing many thousands of deaths from the #Coronavirus, several months in.

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Any death from a disease is tragic, especially to the victim's family- and I don't seek to minimize that tragedy- but the amount of hysteria and overreaction to this 'pandemic' is not proportional to the actual threat we are experiencing.

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The social and economic disruption we are seeing, and those in politics and the media using fear-mongering to manipulate people is the most appalling aspect of this whole episode.

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Wash your hands. Protect those most vulnerable to ANY influenza virus: the elderly, those with covalent respiratory conditions and the immunocompromised. Use common sense in protecting yourself and your family...

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But don't allow yourself to be psychologically manipulated by people who don't really have your best interests in mind.

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