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[quote=Anonymous]I read the article at: 
https://www.amgreatness.com/2020/03/19/dangerous-curves/

I don’t buy the “fueled by media” bashing – people in the media are for the most part statistics-and-data-analysis illiterate and have no way of evaluating the numbers throw at them – The thesis here though seems sounds and would explain the relative low number of deaths in China. The high numbers of deaths in Italy would reflect the state of their health care system  and their demography (skewing older than most European countries).

On an anecdotal note – I was sick late December after hosting the kids (one of them was a bit “under the weather” with fever but no other symptoms) of a friend visiting from China. My symptoms reflect almost all the ones associated with the coronavirus (nausea and cramps to start, cough & temperature afterwards).  It felt different from anything I had experienced before.  I was OK in about 3 days and completely back in about 2 weeks. 
I know that the plural of anecdote is not “data” but it is one that makes me at least understand her perspective on it and the data that she is presenting seem to support her hypothesis.

Dangerous? Yes  -- sure. 
Deadly: only for the very old and already sick -- 99% of the people who died were suffering from something else PRIOR to the virus.. 
Worth cancelling everything and destroying our economy over it?? No -- absolutely no. 
and now, we are talking about 2 Trillions (With a T) of printed money... 
A complete disaster for nothing...

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