It's not the fatality rate you need to look at but the R0 and transmission mechanisms. The bad-case version of this isn't people dying in the streets of the vi

It's not the fatality rate you need to look at but the R0 and transmission mechanisms. The bad-case version of this isn't people dying in the streets of the virus, it's people dying needlessly (some in the streets) of preventable things because the healthcare system is completely log jammed and there are literally no more beds and no more staff available. This basically what Italy is staring at, currently. "It's like a rather bad influenza." This is quite likely dangerously obtuse; we won't know for sure for a while.