Covid-19 Pandemic (Corona Virus)

[Päss1928]

Those effect are not due to the virus, but due to the measures taken against it.
The virus itself does nearly no harm, but the governments panicking and creating fear about it might cause a collapse the economy.

In theory you are correct. But this is the price that we as human kind choose to pay for those lives that would end if we didn't take any measures.

The mortality rate of seasonal flu is ~0.1%. The mortality rate of corona is undetermined yet, but it is somewhere around 2-3%. The mortality rate of 80+ year-olds is over 15%, would you bring it to your close relatives? These are just the face-value theoretical numbers we have now, once we go past our health-care capacity, they escalate even more as Mirek pointed out. It already happened in certain regions of Italy, that's why their mortality rate is huge at the moment: https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...23#post1244323