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Originally Posted by tarcone
Am I wrong to be paranoid? This is kind of scary. One of the suggested end of the world scenarios is a virus hitting.
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It's very reasonable to be concerned about yourself or people you care about, esp. with certain health conditions. But end of the world? No.
It's easy to forget with the press coverage of the 3000 or so who have died from this that 12k-50k die
annually from plain ordinary flu. This is a scary virus, but it's not remotely close to end of the world territory. It would need to be several orders of magnitude more lethal for that to happen. I wouldn't be shocked to see deaths worldwide hit 6-7 figures eventually, or to see a global recession result. It's not good at all. But humanity will easily survive it on the whole and it could well not end up nearly that bad either, depending on response, how long medications take to be developed and become widely available, etc.