the Coronavirus outbreak thread

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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

I just don’t believe this number, I believe you heard it but I can’t believe a first-world nation like the UK would suffer this much. Modern medicine has eliminated Polio, TB, even cured some forms of cancer. I don’t believe with all the resources and knowledge at our disposal any modern country would suffer this much from an influenza. If this were some laboratory-created super microbe (think of the movie “I am Legend”) maybe, but I honestly feel with public measures and medicinal experts working around the clock it will not get this bad.

Yet the people who actually have an understanding of virology believe these numbers. How you "honestly feel" is not helpful.