Anyone remember the 2009 flu pandemic?

The flu H.A.N.A Or also known the porcine flu ?

Yes, very well but this is worse, that one had a cure or there was a special medicine and was contained pretty fast. This is way scarier.

The big difference is not the number of deaths, but the number of people that get severe and require UCI. The 2009 flu didn't collapse hospitals. The corona-chan does.

The problem is more psychological, though. At then end of the day, what matters is how likely you live or die. But people panic when the health system collapses, even if the final death toll is smaller. The psychological blow is not really the death toll, it's watching the system going down.

In general, many people in the current generation take our system for granted, they think it's solid rock no matter what. The moment something collapses, they panic.

Indeed, modern politics can be summed up in a fight between people that think that you can open borders and the system will handle it, and people that think that society will become divided in tribal ethnic groups and the system eventually is gonna collapse and will become a shithole. In general, the more you think the system is safe, the more likely you will panic when you see it collapsing.

And that's why there's so many zombie movies, and why movies and games with an apocalyptic setting are so popular. The system finally collapsing, the civilization going down the sink, that's the big non-written fear in this generation.

If this really get to a Complete Global Saturation™ it will claim pretty much 1% of the entire population of Earth, which will be around 7.8 million deaths.

All the sheep immediately belive it coz the media tells them to. This is propaganda.

I blame the media, they were the first to get hysterical.

Yes.

There was one in 1990 that killed Jim Henson.

I got pretty sick in the 90 one but it passed.

There's something more than the internet here, but a lot of this is human stupidity.

I have been following the actual medical info and stats through the CDC. It has always been described as a very mild illness where almost no one gets very sick. So, confuse it for allergies, that's how mild it is.

The CDC get mentioned all the time, but I don't know anyone, nor have I talked to anyone online, that reads the CDC. Everyone "reads stuff" on facebook or hears it from local news. That's worse than third hand news. Most internet news is probably written by people working from home. But, you can ignore that and go read the CDC stuff, but no one does.

I don't know what level of stupid that is or what it's called because you can find it in seconds.

I remember because I caught it! I caught it from a church sermon my mom forced me to go to, followed by a several hour sunday shopping spree; with each store we went to, I progressively felt less energized, more and more droggy and sick. The next morning, I couldn't even get out of bed. I was out of school for 10 days with a fever of 101-102 degrees. It was awful during its peak days. I remember being left downstairs on the couch, but desperately wanting to go upstairs to take a cold bath. I'd climb three steps, then pass out. Three more steps, pass out. It took me probably 5-6 hours to make it upstairs.