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"A wellknown phenomenon in world of medicine is that, \r\nsometimes what really kills the patient is NOT really the disease (organism) itself, \r\nbut overreaction of the body to it!\r\n\r\nIMHO, current global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic really seems to be causing overreaction \r\n& causing massive damage to whole world economy & bigger & bigger damage!\r\n\r\nIMHO, it seems a global social positive feedback effect is happening (which is the root cause):\r\n\r\nMass media (which is always happy to try to create/push mass fear & alarming/sensational news) \r\n& social media (which is full of people who want their content read/watched/shared as much as possible) \r\nare keep amplifying the effect of each other, on the general public!\r\n\r\nWhich in turn, keep pushing all governments to take more & more drastic (mandatory) measures, against the spread of the disease!\r\n\r\n& the news of each new (government) drastic measure, in turn, feeds more & more into mass media & social media to amplify excessive fear, even further!\r\n\r\nBut then, what would/should be a reasonable (global) response to such a pandemic?\r\n\r\nIMHO, closing any businesses/shops (& even schools) & shutting down public transportation is excessive overreaction!\r\nWe need to make sure whole world economy continues to run OK & livelihoods of any group of people are not effected badly!\r\n\r\nBut, IMHO, practical measures, like social distancing (like no handshaking & working from home) \r\n& frequent washing/disinfecting (of hands & commonly used areas/objects/surfaces) \r\n& wearing masks at any crowded places, etc, could/should be (strongly) recommended (but still NOT as mandatory)!"
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