0.3% is 3 times worse than seasonal flu.
Armyofdumb and the "just flu" bros were both wrong.
It is a serious thing to be sure. Perhaps, up there with the 1957-1958 Asian flu pandemic, during the Eisenhower administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–1958_influenza_pandemic"About 70,000 to 116,000 people died in the United States......"Note ,though, the current US populations of is around 320 million - about 80% higher than that in 1957-58 (180 million).
"The [Asian Flu] virus was most deadly in pregnant women, the elderly, and those with pre-existing heart and lung disease"Also, I believe the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near as deadly among pregnant women ,otherwise I suspect we'd all be hearing about it...
Still, particularly at-risk groups should've been told to stay at home and eat soup until this blew over ,with the government helping with their finances.
Seriously, what more could the public reasonably ask for , in the absence of an effective vaccine or treatment?