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Message: [QUOTE="McLovin, post: 3475949, member: 9450"] There are like 20 threads on here freaking out about the virus, figured I'd jut pick one to post this in... Interesting article from the NYT about people obsessing over the virus. Below is an interesting stat (assuming it is correct) about the place where this all began that puts things into a bit of perspective, hopefully. Obviously it is wise to exercise caution and do what we can to prevent the spread, especially since testing just began and no serious actions to curb the spread took place until this week, but the hysteria I've seen here and other places online may be a little over the top. [I]"However, according to [URL='https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6']data from Johns Hopkins University[/URL], Hubei, the Chinese province where the virus emerged, has reported 67,760 infected people out of a population of about 59 million, an incidence rate of 0.11 percent. [B]This means that 99.89 percent were not infected[/B], suggesting that the American stalkers are probably overestimating their level of risk." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/opinion/coronavirus-statistics.html[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]