Norm, I don't know what to reply to you; you seem to live in a different orbit.
I'm not looking just @ the number of deaths, I'm looking @ the full picture of the global spectrum.
Yes in 1918-19 the world had more deaths...50 to 100 million from a global population of approximately 1.7 billion. That was then and we can learn from it, definitely we do.
Yes today we have only roughly 3,350+ deaths globally related to Coronavirus, and approaching 100,000 cases (that we know of) ...
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This is a new situation, a very serious one I'm sure you agree, in a different world of transportation and with 7.8 billion people (6 billion more than 100 years ago).
This thing is propagating, mutating, is new, relatively unknown, and with greater potential to affect our planet more than it is right now. It could infect 40 to 70% of the global adult population.
It cannot be contained, it is already too late, it cannot be detected, it's like an invisible hacker that can transform itself behind several masks, like a monster from hell, like an ugly bat sucking the blood out of all of us, like a vampire movie but reel. Sorry for the description but you know what I mean.
Brief it's one hell of a virus that seems to be unstoppable. It can slow down and then mutate again, and reinfect people that previously recovered. That's a nasty sunnabaggun of a virus!
Kids can't go to school, elders can't go to church, adults can't fly, Wall Street and all World markets are in full downswing mode spiralling out of control, hairs falling, eyes rolling, as if the entire economy was in suspension and total dependence. And it is because factories are closing, parts are not coming in and going out, people stay home, all public activities are cancelled, all work activity is in slow-mo or from home or nil. No quite yet but it sure looks like it's aiming for it.
All of this is changing the landscape as we know it.
I said before to look back say three months ago, and look now today!
Three months from now I have zero clue; I just follow day-to-day life and listen to science.
I listen more to expert health scientists than I listen to you Norman...and I kid you not.
You are a friend, a fellow member, a respectable gentleman, and that's why I'm talking to you about this subject...Coronavirus and all the actual facts we are living today from its global implications. I'm starting praying ...