Originally Posted by Andy

Dude, the coronavirus panic is extremely overdone. Look at Diamond Princess and S Korea stats.
For Diamond Princess, there was 100% testing; a perfect control group. And everyone was likely exposed to the virus through the ship's air conditioning system.
17% infection rate. 0.5% mortality rate.
And the ages of passengers leaned heavily toward senior citizens so real world numbers are likely lower.

South Korea has done extensive (but not complete) coronavirus testing and has a 0.6% mortality rate.

Just because Italy has a lot of cases doesn't mean that will be replicated; I love Italy but there are a lot of old people and a lot of smokers there. Given the degree of sloth in Italy, I don't believe the hype that they've got a great health care system.