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What do people get out of fear mongering? It seriously baffles me how many smart, technical people just lose their shit with this stuff.

• hurricanetc 7y ago
  Referring to the extreme uncertainty is not fear mongering. Read the links that were posted. They don't say what the individual confidently claims they do. We know little and what we do know are guesses with wide ranges.
• asdfman123 7y ago
  Saying that this is a big deal isn't fearmongering -- all of our elected officials are downplaying this as hard as they can, and most people don't seem concerned about it. People need the truth, and they need time to be able to react to it before we're already in the midst of a bad situation. A Harvard scientist predicted that 40-70% of the world could get this, and the death rate could be 1%. That rate is much higher among the elderly and the unwell. A lot of people are going to die amidst the backdrop of a completely overloaded and mostly unprepared healthcare system. We need to acknowledge that. I do not believe anything I've written is exaggerated or written from a place of fear.