What Happens If I Start A Thread About That "Coronavirus" Thing...?

Greetings, All... S'Me. Yes There is already a Thread about this, but I did not want to possibly invite whatever may happen upon this Thread onto another (innocent!) User, so, I begin this separate Thread here (a bit like My "Climate Change" Thread).

In social media this is currently a hot/constant topic, and rightly so... yet I have certain views concerning it which I was wondering about. Please try to be nice and I apologise in advance if I offend/anger anyone...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1233679/coronavirus-update-symptoms-flu-2020-china-flu-deaths

...Apologies that this is from "The Daily Express", but it is about the closest to what I M'self was thinking about this 'Coro-Flu'-Thing currently going on. Social Media *loves* to highlight Death, Destruction, Suffering, Contagion, etc. etc... but I have seen VERY few articles mentioning "survival rate" rather than "death rate" about Coro-Flu... and fewer articles pointing out that it is a version of INFLUENZA. 

I suffer badly from FLU Myself, and so do all of the things now recommended ("Social distancing", hand washing, etc.) as a matter of course. But now it is recommended for all to do...

In Japan, wearing face-masks is a common practice, for example. 

Also, in this Thread, I am carefully wondering about the following approach... Coro-Flu is just ordinary Influenza but has an "Identifiable Tag" of sorts; and that if *all* Influenza-s were able to be tracked in this way, then all of the statistics would be similar. (Regardless of starting point.)

...Pretty much post whatever You may want, anyone... I am seeking opinion. Even ordinary Influenza is not nice at all, but it is *not necessarily fatal*, and that is what was difficult to find out about this Coro-Flu-Thing.

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  • Greetings, All, especially those who replied so far!

    This may be a thing I am doing too much lately, of being very grateful to all who replied so far, to know that I am not alone in thinking parts of what I posted. In any case this is a general Thanks.

    It seems that this Coro-Flu is indeed just a thing to be *both* worried about and not worried about. Just like "ordinary" Influenza... a very nasty virus which I do not like. It is just now occurring to plain folk that Flu is an airborne bad thing, hence the Media and the "social distancing" and that it should not be just dismissed as "a bit of the sniffles, You'll be fine inna couple of days."...

    Thanks again to all so far for this Thread could have been far worse than it so far is. (No haters, yet...) 

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  • Greetings, All, especially those who replied so far!

    This may be a thing I am doing too much lately, of being very grateful to all who replied so far, to know that I am not alone in thinking parts of what I posted. In any case this is a general Thanks.

    It seems that this Coro-Flu is indeed just a thing to be *both* worried about and not worried about. Just like "ordinary" Influenza... a very nasty virus which I do not like. It is just now occurring to plain folk that Flu is an airborne bad thing, hence the Media and the "social distancing" and that it should not be just dismissed as "a bit of the sniffles, You'll be fine inna couple of days."...

    Thanks again to all so far for this Thread could have been far worse than it so far is. (No haters, yet...) 

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