Anonymous ID: 3dcf9e Feb. 3, 2020, 2:13 a.m. No.8009380   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9391

>>8009347

Suppose a virus infects an entire population. It makes 1% or people sick enough that they need to be hospitalized and untimely kills 0.1%, mostly elderly. This would not be something for healthy individuals to worry about. But would be something for governments to be very worried about. The US does not have 3,000,000 free hospital beds. And 300,000 deaths are something to be avoided at all costs. It would be a catastrophe.

We human beings naturally look to parents for indications if we should be afraid of something. In modern times this instinct is applied to government officials. So when we see them freaking out, the natural instinct is to follow suit. But we shouldn't. This is one of those times when our million-yo instincts are not well suited to the modern world.