It's the curse of the media. Infection rate might be only a few percent, death rate no more than a percent of that, but if you follow the media you get the feel

It's the curse of the media. Infection rate might be only a few percent, death rate no more than a percent of that, but if you follow the media you get the feeling that we are in the middle of a new bubonic plague. This is the same phenomenon that makes people to be more scared of flying than to take the car even though the latter is far more dangerous.