I honestly believe that the Corona virus is more of an illness of mass psychological fear than it is a Virus. I'm not saying the virus isn't real, or that those who suffer from it aren't real.
I'm simply saying that, at least for the US according to the CDC, 260 people have become ill and 14 people dead... which is nothing compared to 300,000,000 entering a state of unreasonable fear.
I know people who don't get a yearly flu shot (50,000 dead/year), don't wash their hands before eating (most viral and bacterial infections aren't airborne), smoke (400,000 dead/year), drink (80,000 dead/year) and regularly drive late at night when tired (35,000 dead/year)... yet they are taking every possible precaution against corona virus, because they don't want to be the 15th death. It's so weird.
Again, not saying it isn't an issue or doesn't exist or can't become a bigger issue. Just that the fear is so disproportional to the threat, it's mind blowing for me. It feels like some mass psychotic event. I'm just disconnected enough from most people's reality that I can't seem to share in it, so I stand a contrarian outsider like I've always been, scratching my head.
I'm simply saying that, at least for the US according to the CDC, 260 people have become ill and 14 people dead... which is nothing compared to 300,000,000 entering a state of unreasonable fear.
I know people who don't get a yearly flu shot (50,000 dead/year), don't wash their hands before eating (most viral and bacterial infections aren't airborne), smoke (400,000 dead/year), drink (80,000 dead/year) and regularly drive late at night when tired (35,000 dead/year)... yet they are taking every possible precaution against corona virus, because they don't want to be the 15th death. It's so weird.
Again, not saying it isn't an issue or doesn't exist or can't become a bigger issue. Just that the fear is so disproportional to the threat, it's mind blowing for me. It feels like some mass psychotic event. I'm just disconnected enough from most people's reality that I can't seem to share in it, so I stand a contrarian outsider like I've always been, scratching my head.