MasileinDE wrote:
you can measuer it by lethal rate, but that's statistics and they never can be 100%
but, mers and sars had a higher lethal rate than corona (by far higher) and back then people seemed kinda chill about it
Snusmumrikken wrote:
MasileinDE wrote:
because the yellow press has headlines like "Deadliest disease ever" and "We're all gonna die because of Corona"
which to be fair, yellow press does this all the time, but for a lot of people yellow press is their go-to news source
deadliest disease ever is very difficult to actually claim tho, there are more people now than ever, uhh.. if we go up in the same percentage of the total population as the black plague then yeah.. concern makes sense Delusion1111111 wrote:
i dont understand why every1 thinks the media is trying to 'scare' ppl like do u want them to underreport the severity of a situation to reduce panic orrr?
i dont understand why every1 thinks the media is trying to 'scare' ppl like do u want them to underreport the severity of a situation to reduce panic orrr?
because the yellow press has headlines like "Deadliest disease ever" and "We're all gonna die because of Corona"
which to be fair, yellow press does this all the time, but for a lot of people yellow press is their go-to news source
you can measuer it by lethal rate, but that's statistics and they never can be 100%
but, mers and sars had a higher lethal rate than corona (by far higher) and back then people seemed kinda chill about it