Help me understand this. We are rightly worried about coronavirus (now renamed COVID-19) and a pandemic. Forget for a moment our apparent incapacity to deal with it world wide. I ordered 99.5% coronavirus mask for upcoming travel. Call me an alarmist. Now: The flu in the US affects more people and kills more people than the coronavirus. Deaths are well in excess of 10,000 and affected individuals exceed 19 million. Why does that reality not set off alarm bells? Is short, I am asking why flu falls into levels of low interest while coronavirus/COVID-19 is headlines? Do we consider deaths by flu just part of our life cycle? Help me understand. Do data seem irrelevant? Maybe data are wrong? Insights?? …see more