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I would be ok, if you had compared coronavirus with the flu we have learned to live with, which kills way more people each year... but smoking? is smoking transmitted over the air? If someone smokes next to you, then you will also start smoking? Do you die from smoking in a few days?

Coronavirus is on the news because we can't control it, we can't see it, it can spread without show of symptoms, it can be deadly... has no vaccine - thus the fear of a pandemic.