I do have one question and I'm asking this seriously, not to start an argument or to attack someone. I also saw this here in a lot of the posts about covid-19. We have numbers, but every time people tend to ignore them or say we should not trust the numbers, take them with a grain of salt, "I think this is way worse, it's going to get way worse" and so on. It's like there is this thirst for disaster or some global drama everywhere, and this is not something that I would expect from Hackernews. If the numbers don't align with our hopes or fears, we should take them with a grain of salt and trust the gut feeling of whoever comments. It's quite weird to see that when it comes to this, people seem to think that it's some sort of conspiracy, China is hiding numbers, now EU is not doing things properly, as I see it everywhere "my country can't have 0 cases, I know that our airport is a big hub and it can't be, we will be doomed as we probably have hundred of cases instead of none and our government is not doing anything".
I'm not saying that this virus is not a threat and I worry for my parents as this could be a big issue for their condition, but we've gone down the rabbit hole with the hysteria in the press and online and it's scary to see this need for a global pandemic and the urge to constantly feed the panic monster.
I'm not saying that this virus is not a threat and I worry for my parents as this could be a big issue for their condition, but we've gone down the rabbit hole with the hysteria in the press and online and it's scary to see this need for a global pandemic and the urge to constantly feed the panic monster.