Agreed.
I've been telling everyone not to panic. This is nothing more than a new strain of flu. Some will shrug it off and some will feel dreadful. A small number of people will die.
It's exactly the same with all these things.
As I keep reminding people, who seem to have the memories of goldfish, 50,100 MORE people died from the cold, in the UK alone, between November 2017 and March 2018. Coronavirus deaths worldwide are currently around 10,000. It's nothing.
The only reason why the media is whipping everyone up into a frenzy over this particular virus is because it's a new strain and it's infecting everyone at once. It would be exactly the same if everyone in the world suddenly became susceptible to the common cold. There would be exactly the same number of deaths, but no one would bat an eyelid.
The cold snap of Winter 2017/18 was far, far more insidious, not only because of the number of extra deaths, but because our Government and society in general could have done so much more to prevent most of those deaths.
I'm feeling steadily worse by the hour, but I'm still nowhere near the state to justify the media and Government frenzy caused by this virus. The hysteria is absolutely and utterly unnecessary.