Originally posted by biz-engineer Exactly. What happens is that due to usual media hype, people don't take it seriously.
Tell that to the fifty thousand people locked in northern Italy...
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Originally posted by RobA_Oz Yeah, something that has a high chance of sending you to the ER with acute pneumonia and has a 2% lethality rate is obviously not a cold. To be fair, it *mostly* kills elderly people and those with preexisting conditions (typical risk groups), but the increased chance of hospital commitment puts a LOT of pressure on the healthcare systems in any country, as well as increase the risk of contagion because, well, hospitals.
Not to mention the fact that pneumonia is a debilitating disease, you
CANNOT power through it and still go to work like you might be able to do on a cold or even the flu. Nevermind the fact that going to work sick is just asking for trouble and for an outbreak.
This thing is a mini-SARS more than a super-cold. There is no reason to panic and fall prey to all the misinformation, but there is reason to
worry and take all the precautions needed.