Contrary to Fox Noise, Coronavirus is not like the flu. Simple numbers I found:

[garybeck]

9. your point is?

so if 97% of the people who get it survive and a million people die, we shouldn't care?

i accept your argument that there is grey area between defining who has it and who reports it.
but you are forgetting the same thing happens with the flu. many people get it and don't report it and they do fine. I know several people who probably got the flu this year and did not go to the hospital.

you are also ignoring the fact that not everyone counted as having it now has been to a hospital.

but your point is valid.

but you are also ignoring the fact that there is a vaccine for the flu and there is not one for the coronavirus. and there are specific treatments for the flu and no specific treatment for coronavirus.

if you add all that up, it is very reasonable to say that the mortality rate of the coronavirus is significantly higher than that of the flu, so it is extremely misleading and disingenuous to compare them and say that because only 25,000 people die of the flu that we can expect the same from this virus. that is simply not true. the fact is that many of the people who have already died from coronavirus would NOT have died if they got the flu.