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Originally Posted by Lacit170
and how did the media create fear and panic? did you see the NEW numbers they are reporting for projected deaths? DRASTICALLY different from what they started by telling us.....
really? do you really think you are going to die? that is what im talking about fear and panic be spread to the public. media throwing out 1 or 2 young people who died to back up their stance that it can kill anyone, yes, which it can, but will it for 99% of people, probably not.
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1. If the experts give different estimates based on different calculations, it's not the media "creating fear and panic" - it's literally
shooting the messenger. Those projection by the experts on viral diseases are good- faith estimates that should be used to plan accordingly. And also, to realize the severity of the situation.
2. Yes, there's a very realistic chance that if I got infected, I might die from coronavirus. But guess what?
That would be the least of my worries. If I'm dead, then at least there's nothing more to worry about.
Instead, most of us will live and have to carry on in a world that will be drastically different from the one we had up to 2019. Nearly everyone will have lost friends, family, coworkers along the way. The world economy won't be solid again, perhaps for years or decades. Many industries might be wiped out and millions will be unemployed for an uncertain period of time, perhaps without an adequate safety net from their respective governments. Many millions might starve before the world's food supply and all supply chains are back to their pre-2020 levels.
And all of that is in a reasonably
optimistic scenario - one that assumes we find a vaccine within 18 months, that the virus doesn't mutate and become even deadlier, or that an entirely different virus or bacteria doesn't rear its ugly head and decimates what's left of the human population. All those scenarios might seem doomsday predictions, and yet there is nothing that guarantees they couldn't possibly happen. All we can do is hope they really are as unlikely as they sound right now.
Obviously a lot of people think this will go away quickly and everything can just go back to normal. We'll see what they think 2 months from now.