Reply To: Coronavirus research update

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Difficult to get a balanced view isn’t it.  Its all very well being cautious as we want to be responsible but the world doesn’t stop in the face of other risks which may (or may not) be higher.

For instance normal flu killed several thousand people in England alone in 2017/18 and a few thousand die on the roads every year.  We take care about such thing but don’t go into a blind funk about them.  In fact most of us don’t really think about the risks of them at all unless we have professional reason to.

Covid-19 seems likely to be no worse than a short period of discomfort and inconvenience for the majority of us, at least those of us who are healthy.

It makes sense to minimize the risk from a public health perspective but from an individual perspective panic buying bog roll and fearing the zombie apocalypse is just ludicrous.

Without accurate information though, people are scared of the unknown.  And the news obsession with scare stories and worst xase scenarios doesn’t help.