ING 1/2: "Those of you old enough to..........>

CHINA: ING 1/2: "Those of you old enough to remember the SARS epidemic will

remember all too well how a disease which only infected 8098 people worldwide,

and resulted in only 774 deaths in 37 countries (thanks Wikipedia), a mortality

rate of less than 10%, led to such widespread public alarm that it plunged Hong

Kong into recession, and caused a serious slowdown in China. Other countries

badly affected, included Canada, which held the symposium on the disease,

bringing in health workers from around the world who had been exposed to the

disease and stuffed them together into a conference hall in Toronto. Please, if

there is a symposium on this new outbreak, do it by skype. To put all this into

perspective, in the 2017/2018 season, in the US, flu, the normal common

all-garden variety, not SARS, not MERS, not any fancy animal crossover hybrid

coronavirus, killed 80,000 people according to the centre for disease control

(CDC). Although this was a high tally for a normal year, it didn't receive much

attention, because each year, flu kills tens of thousands of people anyway."