[lvturner]

I mean, 1.25M people died in 2013 globally from car accidents, and we didn't all start working from home then.

I understand that a new virus is scary - but the level of fear, panic and anxiety is quite disproportionate. Keep your hands clean, keep your level of health up - work from home if you can as that will also help with other killers such as pollution and car deaths.

In fact, as I type this, one has to wonder if the measures put in place will result in less global deaths - not due to the efficiency of containing Cornovirus but because everyone is traveling less and factories are producing/polluting less, restaurants are being avoided and more people are cooking at home which may result in healthier diets too.

[ref: https://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/traffic_deaths...]

[watwut]

I mean, there was no epidemic in people dying in car crashes in 2013. And we are doing quite a lot to minimize deaths from car crashes - traffic rules, technological regulations.