I can't really take this piece seriously when it's claimed that the fatality rate is "20 times" that of seasonal flu... If the author claims to be "rational", s

I can't really take this piece seriously when it's claimed that the fatality rate is "20 times" that of seasonal flu... If the author claims to be "rational", surely he understands how many cases are not being detected and how the numbers from South Korea and Diamond Princess approach the real fatality rate much more. It's always like this. People first underreact and want to believe it's nothing, then overreact. For now (2 weeks after the article was written), staying levelheaded amidst the irrational panic is the "rational" thing to do. Exactly the reverse of what's proposed in the article.