Ironic that you should bring up flu vaccination...despite the risk of death from flu being the average person’s greater concern (by far), we still have to beg people to get vaccinated, and the rates are low.
I’d wager that most of the folks fear-mongering about covid-19 on this thread haven’t had a flu shot this year.
Also, I’m kind of horrified at how indifferent you are across many comments to the prospect of tens of millions of elderly and sick people dying. Just because you’re young and healthy, no one should be very concerned about this?
For those with no pre-existing medical conditions, 0.9%:
http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
Death rates for flu vary widely by age, race and location, but these numbers are not out of the ordinary for influenza.
I’m not “indifferent”, I’m calmly assessing relative risks. You, on the other hand, are simply spreading FUD. Go breathe into a bag.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
So using your most optimistic number of 0.4%, that’s a fatality rate 20x as high.
And again, you have many comments downplaying the significance of this virus based on your own assessment that it kills young and healthy people at acceptably low rates. What about the billions of people who are older, sick, or have the misfortune of being born in a country without access to decent medical care? Pretty easy to calmly assess relative risks to other people, especially if you get them wrong by a factor of 2000%.
Maybe play some relaxing music and light a candle. (Be careful, though: you’re many hundreds of times more likely to start a fire with the candle than die from covid!)
Also many at-risk patients are vaccinated against the flu.
Besides, even if you are likely to survive and all, it's still wise to plan for everybody else to panic ;)