Thursday, March 19, 2020

Coronavirus comparison

This was sent to me today.  I feel it is very helpful to put things in perspective.  I hope you will share it with your family, friends, and neighbors to help them overcome the fear that is being propagated through the media.

Calistos Kiambo: I am posting this to balance your newsfeed from posts that caused fear and panic...

Sources: University of Hamburg data

The number of deaths in the world in the first two months of 2020:
• 8,000,000: Abortions (Abortion Statistics – Worldometer)
University of Hamburg:
• 2360: Corona virus
• 69602: Common cold
• 140,584: Malaria
• 153,696: Suicide
• 193,479: Road accidents
• 240,950: HIV loss
• 358,471: Alcohol
• 716,498: Smoking
• 1,177,141: Cancer 
• 82,000 people are sick with Coronavirus at the moment, of which 77,000 are in China. With a population of over 1.1 billion, this means that if you are not in or haven't recently visited China, this should eliminate 94% of your concern.

If you do contract Coronavirus, this still is not a cause for panic because:
• 81% of the Cases are MILD
• 14% of the Cases are MODERATE
• Only 5% of the Cases are CRITICAL
Which means that even if you do get the virus, you are most likely to recover from it.
Some have said, "But this is worse than SARS!" SARS had a fatality rate of 10% while COVID-19 has a fatality rate of 2%.

Moreover, looking at the ages of those who are dying of this virus, the death rate for the people UNDER 50 years of age is only 0.2%.

This means that if you are under 50 years of age and don't live in China – you are more likely to win the lottery (which has a 1 in 45,000,000 chance).

Let's take one of the worst days so far, the 10th of February, when 108 people in CHINA died of Coronavirus.
On the same day:
• 26,283 people died of Cancer
• 24,641 people died of Heart Disease
• 4,300 people died of Diabetes
• Suicide took 28 times more lives than the virus did.
• Mosquitoes kill 2,740 people every day, HUMANS kill 1,300 fellow humans every day, and snakes kill 137 people every day. (Sharks kill 2 people a year.)

TAKE MULTI-VITAMINS AND DO THE DAILY THINGS TO SUPPORT YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, PROPER HYGIENE, AND DO NOT LIVE IN FEAR! 

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