Because in the UK nobody gives a shit about 17,000 people dying of Flu, but so far 400 have died in the UK likely hit 2K or 3K and the world is losing it's mind. Flu is a death sentence for the old and frail just the same, do you not see this ?? Lets compare it to the plague with no health care at all unless you count leaches where estimated 30-60% of the worlds population died, then you'll see how mild it is.
The difference is that Covid is still not a known thing,death rate for seasonal flu is 0.1% in the US, death rate for Covid is much higher with still plenty of unknown factors. With flu, you know that by March end, less people are going to have it, there are no certainties with Covid.
Certainties are it spreads Faster which causes a surge of patients needing hospital support. Which is causing issues and deaths due to lack of treatment soon, nobody is denying that sad outcome. We do not know the death rate is higher, because we see, people tested and dead, but we don't see people who'd had it, many with no symptoms at all, not everyone gets tested, only those that pretty much need hospitalisation. Huge Study soon 3.5Mil tests, to see who's had it then from that we can go 10% or 80% have had it, if 10% bad news worse than flu, if 80% then wayyyy better than flu. Stop presuming it's WORST CASE And we are all going to die.
There is a vast gulf between saying it's similar to flu and saying we are all going to die. Something new, something without cure, something that spreads faster with many unknowns is much more dangerous than the seasonal flu with 0.1% death rate.
No YOU Think it is, the Media are spinning it is, the Media lie and like to scare people. It's definately 1/10th as bad as they claim putting at it Flu * 4 worst case, not Flu * 40 like they claim, but Flu * 4 is still worse case, it might at the end be Flu * 0.2. But look at the other side, 3.3Million americans just lost there jobs and got put into poverty, hopefully short term for most, that impact wayyy worse to me, than the Virus is doing. Flu * 4 is still only plague / 100 if that helps!!
Liberal media hysteria is doing a great job spreading infections all over. Imagine a city like New York with lots of extreme liberals being whipped up in a panic instead, of staying indoors. So, extreme liberals with the flu or cold overwhelm emergency rooms and get the Corona Virus from their hospital visit. Multiply that by the number of liberal idiots who believe the lies of New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, etc. On the plus side, liberal media is killing some of the most rabid, extreme liberals in our society. Sanctuary cities like New York and California have multiplied the infections exponentially, when it is illegals (foreigners) who are more likely to use emergency services knowing the US taxpayers are on the hook for it. On top of that, they are probably, getting Corona Virus from the hospital and then, spreading it all around in their communities.
So dumb. Then again, it's Joe & Mika. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...takenly-claimed-yesterday-1000-americans-died