> There’s a part of me that wonders if this “crisis” has been created by news coverage. The flu kills thousands every year. The early articles seemed to say tha

> There’s a part of me that wonders if this “crisis” has been created by news coverage. The flu kills thousands every year. The early articles seemed to say that Corona virus was no worse that the flu. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-.. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-.... This businessinsider article says that 15% of people 80yrs+ die. I was thinking like that but I don't think so anymore. There is one important difference between COVID-19 and the regular flu: COVID-19 seems to infect a lot more people than the flu. Even if COVID-19 has an overall fatality rate that is much lower than regular flu, the fact that it spreads fast means it can overwhelm health services so that those few severe cases can't get the health they need, when with regular flu they would get that help. That can make it much more dangerous in practice even if, in theory, it's not. Now with containment having failed the only course of action is to do everything we can to slow its progression to avoid overwhelming services.