[triyambakam]

Contagiousness is different than mortality. It seems quite contagious, but low mortality. But I am not in India right now - I am in the US where hysteria is everywhere and they are talking about continuing lockdowns for months longer, or basically indefinitely.

[vertex-four]

Mortality rate for the coronavirus is about 0.3% - the flu is about 0.002%. These are not comparable numbers. For every person who catches the flu and dies from it, 150 people who catch the coronavirus would die.

This is with the best treatment we can afford given the current contagion rate - if more people were infected, we could not afford treatment for them, and the mortality rate would climb.

[ashleshbiradar]

indeed contagiousness is different from mortality, but think of it like this, if more humans are infected at the same time, it'll overload the hospital capacities, this will 1- make it impossible to ensure proper care, since the hospitals will be overwhelmed. 2- also impact patients who require treatments for other illnesses, since systems will be busy and overloaded with the covid-19 patients.

[triyambakam]

Hospitals in the US are so lacking with patients that they are furloughing and laying off doctors and losing money. They never were overwhelmed and would not have been