Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "Coronavirus cases have risen sharply in China" video.

@jennirenfer2578 He's a prominent dissenter against the government in Beijing - so inevitably at some point, he's fated to have some inexplicable and tragic accident. The government in China has zero tolerance for such high profile critics.
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People always fear that it's much worse than they're told. That's why governments like not to tell us anything.
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Just a friendly reminder to everyone: keep calm, and don't get too worked up about sensational headlines: - the new virus appears to have a ~2% mortality rate (or less), comparable with a regular seasonal flu (1) - you don't need to self-isolate, unless you have symptoms or had close contact with somebody who has - you are still overwhelmingly more likely to catch flu than coronavirus - it is not a bioweapon, it did not come from snakes, and there are not thousands of deaths you haven't heard about already (3) - the world isn't ending just yet SOURCES (which I trust you all to dismiss without reading them <3) (1) - https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html (2) - https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/novel-coronavirus-self-isolation (3) - https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/baseless-conspiracy-theories-claim-new-coronavirus-was-bioengineered/
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Um, "Pestilence" and "Disease" are supposed to be the same dude. ;)
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@leakitchener8037 17% is a figure I've seen floating around for a while, wherever conspiracy theorists are - I suspect it's because it's a statistic that emerged early on in the virus' run, when the only people known to the authorities were the ones taken so severely ill that they needed hospitalisation. Like most cherrypicked statistics, its significance collapses when you expose it to a little bit of context. Now the virus has been going on for longer, we've come to discover that it presents with relatively mild symptoms in many cases - meaning the number of reported infected may be far lower than the true number - which has the knock-on effect of inflating the apparent mortality rate. The best way to think of this Coronavirus, according to all current information, is to treat it exactly like the flu - avoid contact with the infected, and avoid spreading it if you are presenting symptoms. Call for help via the phone, and do not attend the local A&E or your doctor's surgery in person.
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@oroincorporated You talk about analysis and statistics, but I saw none of that in your post. You just said "think about" a number of factors a good number of times, but did not care to explain how you think we should interpret any of them. Instead, you seem to interested only in stirring the imagination - hardly an exercise in hard science if I may say so.
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@oroincorporated There's basically only two kinds of people who disregard the WHO - idiots, and Russian trolls. Which are you?
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@oroincorporated You blatantly have not studied political science - get off yer high horse.
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@Harthorn I think neither of us has anything approaching the full picture, and the doubt cuts both ways. You can't tell me that I know nothing, and therefore I am in no position to argue that it's not so bad - and then wheel round using the same lack of evidence to prove that it's much worse.
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@Harthorn You have no idea what age I am, and no thanks. I get that the situation is scary - all I ask is that we save the grim analysis for when we actually have some facts to work with, rather than, as you so rightly point out, a near total absence of reliable information.
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