Avoid contact. Stay at home or in areas void of contact like parks or such. The common flu, while more deadly, has a proven vaccine regime that the majority of people partake. This virus is totally us protected. There is no comparison. Stay at home. Act as if you have the virus and you do not want other to catch it even if you don't like them.

Call your doctor. Do not GO to your doctor if you have symptoms. Do not visit anyone. Keep distance. This is very serious, yet can be controlled with caution.

Flu death rate worldwide hovers around 1% each and every year. We are not a full year through Corona and currently worldwide the death rate is 4.3%.

Not sure why everyone wants to completely downplay this virus. It is easier to contract than the FLU, lays dormant in your system for longer than the FLU, and obvious based on current numbers it kills at a much higher rate than the FLU.

Sure you can say, the percentage could drop as more people get it, and more testing is available. COULD is a dangerous word with a disease that kills at a higher percentage so far and is more contagious and lays dormant longer(thereby making spreading it much more easy)

I decide what to to about communicable diseases/viruses from the people who have schooled and trained most of their adult life, you know, the CDC. The talking heads from MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News are morons, and taking advice from them about a virus is similar to taking your car to a bicycle shop to have work done on it.

Flu death rate worldwide hovers around 1% each and every year. We are not a full year through Corona and currently worldwide the death rate is 4.3%.

Not sure why everyone wants to completely downplay this virus. It is easier to contract than the FLU, lays dormant in your system for longer than the FLU, and obvious based on current numbers it kills at a much higher rate than the FLU.

Sure you can say, the percentage could drop as more people get it, and more testing is available. COULD is a dangerous word with a disease that kills at a higher percentage so far and is more contagious and lays dormant longer(thereby making spreading it much more easy)

I decide what to to about communicable diseases/viruses from the people who have schooled and trained most of their adult life, you know, the CDC. The talking heads from MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News are morons, and taking advice from them about a virus is similar to taking your car to a bicycle shop to have work done on it.

If only we could get our information from the CDC we would be better off. Instead this is being run by the VP. Personally, I didn't know he was a doctor and therefore he would be qualified. If he's not, then it's another attempt to mislead the public so the economy wouldn't crash. Too late for that and now there is so much disinformation no one knows the details and is truly prepared.

If you want information from the CDC, go to their website. Nobody is being misled by the administration. They are trying to keep people level headed in the midst of disinformation (fear mongering) in news outlets.

Mike Pence isn't playing doctor. He's heading a task force. His job is organization and oversight of all the economic logistics regarding supply and demand of urgent items, and things of that nature. And I'd imagine the President wants him to be his informant on the ground, so that he can know he's getting reliable information back. If you haven't noticed, many government officials have tried to undermine him during and before his presidency.

Economic impact is more important than many are willing to admit, by the way. If you over react and crash the economy, you send millions into financial hardship and poverty. Poverty leads to more sickness. More sickness leads to an even greater burden on the healthcare system, and more death.

Flu death rate worldwide hovers around 1% each and every year. We are not a full year through Corona and currently worldwide the death rate is 4.3%.

Not sure why everyone wants to completely downplay this virus. It is easier to contract than the FLU, lays dormant in your system for longer than the FLU, and obvious based on current numbers it kills at a much higher rate than the FLU.

Sure you can say, the percentage could drop as more people get it, and more testing is available. COULD is a dangerous word with a disease that kills at a higher percentage so far and is more contagious and lays dormant longer(thereby making spreading it much more easy)

I decide what to to about communicable diseases/viruses from the people who have schooled and trained most of their adult life, you know, the CDC. The talking heads from MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News are morons, and taking advice from them about a virus is similar to taking your car to a bicycle shop to have work done on it.

I'm not sure why you're saying don't take advice from moron talking heads, when THEY are the people feeding all the hype by exaggerating numbers, misrepresenting numbers, and telling everyone to hide in their homes till it goes away. These are just the types of people I'm arguing AGAINST. I'm sure as heck not taking any advice from them. Nor do I take any information they give seriously.

The current death rate in the US for coronavirus is about 1.25%. And continues to drop. Its not a matter of "might" go down, the number IS going down. You are lumping in world rates where places like China and Italy have people piled on top of each other, and have far less healthy populations. The healthcare in both countries is atrocious, and Italy has the second oldest population in the world. This virus is killing the elderly, and those with preexisting conditions. Same thing the flu does.

Once again, there is no hard evidence to suggest this is even more contagious than the flu, because we're just going by the rate of new cases per day, and that number is skewed as a lot of people are being tested at once, as testing becomes available. How many people with the flu do you suppose go get tested on a yearly basis, by percentage? I've seen numbers from the CDC showing that they estimate there are between 9 million and 45 million "illnesses", annually from the flu, since 2010. That's a pretty huge margin for an estimate, wouldn't you say? This is probably because they are having to guess at the number of people who never report that they have the flu. People are used to dealing with the flu. Coronavirus is new, and coupled with the hype in the media, people are freaking out and getting tested. The numbers are likely to level out as more and more are tested, and that is according to opinions of health experts who have dealt with new outbreaks, not according to me.

Another thing the media refuses to acknowledge, as they desperately try to paralyze our society with fear of this "rapidly spreading" virus, is that it has probably been here since November. That's when it started in China, but they were hiding it from the public, as the Chinese are apt to do. Do you have any idea how much travel has taken place between China and the US since that time? Do you know how many foreign exchange students come from China, as they infiltrate our technical schools and steal our intellectual property? You think this just all of a sudden started spreading?

Not likely, my friend.

If you want information from the CDC, go to their website. Nobody is being misled by the administration. They are trying to keep people level headed in the midst of disinformation (fear mongering) in news outlets.

Mike Pence isn't playing doctor. He's heading a task force. His job is organization and oversight of all the economic logistics regarding supply and demand of urgent items, and things of that nature. And I'd imagine the President wants him to be his informant on the ground, so that he can know he's getting reliable information back. If you haven't noticed, many government officials have tried to undermine him during and before his presidency.

Economic impact is more important than many are willing to admit, by the way. If you over react and crash the economy, you send millions into financial hardship and poverty. Poverty leads to more sickness. More sickness leads to an even greater burden on the healthcare system, and more death.