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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'm definitely in the "nothing to fear but fear itself" camp on this. If anyone knows the classic comedy series 'Dad's Army', I keep thinking of the characters Jones and Fraser! There is a lot of confusion too. I've spent most of the weekend watching a darts tournament on TV, and the players were still doing their traditional walk on high fiving the crowd, shaking hands with each other etc, hugging at the end of the game. We shouldn't be doing any of that should we!? The situation in football is also a joke. Handshakes before the kick off have been banned, but not at full time it seems. Nor have goal celebrations, tackling, marking other players, forming a wall at free-kicks etc.

    Ok I know that sport is secondary to everyday life, but if this virus was that serious then at the very least such influential figures would be severely chastised for creating such a bad example. Maybe by this time tomorrow they will have been but I'm not holding my breath.

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  • I'm definitely in the "nothing to fear but fear itself" camp on this. If anyone knows the classic comedy series 'Dad's Army', I keep thinking of the characters Jones and Fraser! There is a lot of confusion too. I've spent most of the weekend watching a darts tournament on TV, and the players were still doing their traditional walk on high fiving the crowd, shaking hands with each other etc, hugging at the end of the game. We shouldn't be doing any of that should we!? The situation in football is also a joke. Handshakes before the kick off have been banned, but not at full time it seems. Nor have goal celebrations, tackling, marking other players, forming a wall at free-kicks etc.

    Ok I know that sport is secondary to everyday life, but if this virus was that serious then at the very least such influential figures would be severely chastised for creating such a bad example. Maybe by this time tomorrow they will have been but I'm not holding my breath.

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