Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Welp, looks like the Coronavirus has completely killed my trip to Asia. All plans were canceled, flights going to be canceled, all I'll have left is 6 days in Amsterdam, and even that might get canceled. I'm fine with it but too many people involved are in panic mode.

Estimates by one epidemiologist are that 40-70% of the people in the *world* will get it, but I call complete bullshit. They had the same kind of thing about SARS and it wasn't even close. Meanwhile, Ebola really was an insanely deadly disease and these same people were silent.

Lots of things still uncertain, but at a death rate of even 1%, if 60% of the population get it, that's 480k dead people in Germany alone. And the way the US handles the virus right now...get to South Korea asap...

Yeah, and I say numbers above 10% world wide infection are bullshit. These same people didn't run around claiming these numbers for Ebola and Ebola has 25x the infection rate and 25-90% fatality rate.

otoh ebola was never global the way corona is. and the response to ebola was sweeping and immediate whereas Corona is already being mishandled tremendously in the US alone.