Coronavirus Open Thread (October-December 2020)

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@qwert_zuiop

@the_bear

Yeah it’s the panic I fear more than the virus itself.

It’s kinda funny that this is exactly the same narrative spread in Europe by people who don’t take the virus seriously. Next to comments on how the virus is actually not that dangerous, just like the flu and the opinion that COVID will just die down if we just stop panicking about it (“It’s the measures against COVID that make the virus so dangerous, not the virus itself”).

About a thousand people a day are dying in Europe daily due to Covid. Normally around 15,000 die every day. So, a daily 7% increase in additional deaths.