Originally Posted by
guy_incognito
Even if every single one of those 300k deaths is a direct result of Covid-19 (which isn't the case), it accounts for 0.004% of the world's population. Malaria kills 400k+ people a year. HIV does for around one million. Flu accounts for (according to the WHO, if you can believe anything they say), 250k to 650k depending on the severity of the strain.
The point is that the severity of Covid-19 simply doesn't justify the hysterical reaction.
309k people have died of Covid from the 22nd of January to date (so less than 4 months) and half of these 4 months have been spent on quarantine by most of the countries world wide. I am not a doctor and/or an epidemiologist but I guess that if nothing had been done we would be talking of numbers 3,4,5 or maybe 10 times higher than these. The majority of these 300k deaths were either elderly people or people with other diseases BUT they were living a normal life with all the treatments that modern medicine and science can provide, allowing them to have a longer life expectancy till they hit the Cov2. I would be happier than you are if we could all be proven of overreacting to this disease, but only time will tell and in the mean time we have to play it safe.