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

Disambiguating Cynosure

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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  • I won’t talk about statistics, death rates or anything like that.

    I’m just going to admit that I’m one of those who panic. I completely freaked out today, ended up yelling and crying. 

    I’m not panic buying, I’m not afraid that of catching it even though I might catch it. I’m worried about my children a little bit  (I know it seems it doesn’t affect children, unlike the flu, but they’re getting vaccinated against flu every year so it doesn’t worry me) But I’m worried about my parents which have poor health and I don’t think they’ve got a chance to survive if they get it. They live abroad and I was planning to visit them in a month (during school Easter break) but I think it would be too risky. I don’t want unknowingly carry the virus and give it to them. But I haven’t seen them for over 7 months and I’ve got flight booked and I was planning to visit them and now what? I completely don’t know what to do and what’s going to happen. And if I cancel my visit - when will I visit them? In the summer? And what if they catch the virus from someone else? I’m completely freaking out and I don’t know what to do. It’s very unlikely it’s going to end in a month. All my Easter plans are ruined. My parents are expecting us, my children can’t wait to see their grandparents and I’m worried and angry and can’t really focus on anything else. I don’t need that. Something is always happening  and even if one problem ends - another one starts. It’s always something. I’ve got enough. Of everything.

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  • I won’t talk about statistics, death rates or anything like that.

    I’m just going to admit that I’m one of those who panic. I completely freaked out today, ended up yelling and crying. 

    I’m not panic buying, I’m not afraid that of catching it even though I might catch it. I’m worried about my children a little bit  (I know it seems it doesn’t affect children, unlike the flu, but they’re getting vaccinated against flu every year so it doesn’t worry me) But I’m worried about my parents which have poor health and I don’t think they’ve got a chance to survive if they get it. They live abroad and I was planning to visit them in a month (during school Easter break) but I think it would be too risky. I don’t want unknowingly carry the virus and give it to them. But I haven’t seen them for over 7 months and I’ve got flight booked and I was planning to visit them and now what? I completely don’t know what to do and what’s going to happen. And if I cancel my visit - when will I visit them? In the summer? And what if they catch the virus from someone else? I’m completely freaking out and I don’t know what to do. It’s very unlikely it’s going to end in a month. All my Easter plans are ruined. My parents are expecting us, my children can’t wait to see their grandparents and I’m worried and angry and can’t really focus on anything else. I don’t need that. Something is always happening  and even if one problem ends - another one starts. It’s always something. I’ve got enough. Of everything.

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