metmike: People are obviously not getting this message yet. 

At the end of the year, (maybe as soon as a month from now) we will look back and realize that with Coronavirus infects just a  fraction of those that get the flu...............every year for even the weakest flu season and  how incredibly over reacting the current panic was.

1,000 times more panicked than for a flu that kills 50 times more of us(in this case, most of the fatalities are the old/sick because they are the ones that are most protected by flu shots............every year)

This will NOT be as bad as the flu!!!!!

Shutting stuff down is a good thing because it's an action that bolsters my confidence that this will not be as bad as the flu.  However, we may be going overboard here with closings and its adding fuel to the off the charts panic

Shutting stuff down is a good thing because it's an action that bolsters my confidence that this will not be as bad as the flu.  However, we may be going overboard here and its adding fuel to the off the charts panic.

WHO: Coronavirus is different from influenza, and that means it can be contained

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/03/who-coronavirus-different-than-influenza-can-be-contained/

“We don’t even talk about containment for seasonal flu — it’s just not possible,” Tedros said. “But it is possible for Covid-19. We don’t do contact-tracing for seasonal flu — but countries should do it for Covid-19, because it will prevent infections and save lives. Containment is possible.”

WHO officials said that such steps have enabled China, where the outbreak began and most cases have been reported, to bring down the number of new cases the country is seeing.

Tuesday’s briefing with reporters marked the second day in a row WHO officials pressed the flu comparison as a way to call for action, which they said is all the more important because there are no approved vaccines or therapies for the coronavirus, as there are for flu.

On Monday, Tedros said, “We have never seen before a respiratory pathogen that’s capable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures. If this was an influenza epidemic, we would have expected to see widespread community transmission across the globe by now and efforts to slow it down or contain it would not be feasible.”