Coronavirus: How scared should we be?
Good article! Answer: not very scared!<p>I&#x27;m surprised to hear people hyperventilating in fear while speaking of returning to the gym, school, or work. The press has a lot of fools whipped up into a frenzy with this virus.<p>Granted it is <i>very</i> contagious, but there are still <i>very</i> few cases relative to the population. And it kills so rarely!<p>Over a period of 4 weeks I have periodically and anecdotally polled all  friends by asking the questions:<p>1. Have you or anyone you directly know caught Covid-19?<p>2. Have you, or anyone you know, <i>heard indirectly</i> (i.e., someone told you) of someone they knew who had Covid-19?<p>For me, the answer to 1 was &quot;One person&quot;: an in-law who was in longterm care in a Hong Kong hospital and died of Covid-19.<p>For me, the answer to 2 was still  &quot;One person&quot;.<p>When I extended the questioning to <i>all acquaintances</i> the answer to 3 was &quot;Six persons&quot;: the in-law and 
 what a clerk described as &quot;five men I know who are workers from South America.&quot; I asked him how the five dealt with  the ailment and he said &quot;They worked through it; they&#x27;re young and strong and they need the jobs!&quot;<p>If you told me to find a Covid-19 patient I would be hard pressed to do so w&#x2F;o visiting a local hospital or funeral home. Even then I doubt they would have one on hand.