[jussij]

Many political leaders around the world seem to be downplaying the severity of this virus.

So lets consider some details:

1. Looking at past events, pandemics do kill (i.e. many tens of millions where killed by the Spanish Flu).

2. This Covid 19 also kills (i.e. high deaths tolls in Italy/Spain and rising etc).

3. Covid 19 also appears to be highly contagious (i.e. look at New York).

4. From what I have read the reason the virus kills is hospital get overrun so patients have zero treatment options (i.e. hospitals run out of ventilators, medical staff, space, drugs etc etc).

Now I suspect if Pakistan goes down the path of trying to save its economy before tying to control the virus, they are in for a world of hurt.