Please explain the Coronavirus. Is it that deadly or not?

You genuinely don't have the first clue what you are talking about, do you. If you did you wouldn't be asking about dead bats. Clearly you just make stuff up to suit your prejudices, which helps explain why you refuse to admit you are wrong. A perspective constructed independent of factual data is basically immune to it.

Now, run along and do a bit of research on this while the adults talk.

 

Bats, being the only mammal which can fly (rather than just glide like flying foxes) has a really high metabolic rate. Up to 40 times that of humans. Scientists who study bats think this extraordinary metabolic rate means that they can carry a large number of infections without becoming ill. They are the perfect carriers for viruses and bacterial diseases and keeping them alive in cramped conditions in markets in close proximity with other animals and humans is asking for trouble. Faeces and other bodily fluids can transmit the illness to other species without any need to eat them.
So in answer to your question about where the dead bats are I can only tell you that there doesn't need to be any for them to have been the cause of this outbreak.
Whether you understand and take this information on board is up to you but most people will not be impressed by your need to make this a conspiracy theory about bio-labs and escaped bio-weapons.
If I were you I'd quit while I was behind...

 

I'm just going by the numbers, not what people are saying or projections or graphs, etc.

This has been going on since January. In the U.S., population, 327 million, weeks and weeks of testing, there are 2700 confirmed cases of covid-19 and 58 deaths.

Those numbers are no more serious than the common cold, which I assert covid-19 is and we are overreacting.

 

How many cases do you think we will have by this time next year?

 

The US had conducted about 13,000 tests as of Friday. Italy has conducted 86,000 & Sth Korea 250,000. The truth is that you have no idea how serious this is right now because there is not enough data. Maybe it won't get much worse, maybe it will. Things didn't look that bad in Italy 2 weeks ago, now there are over 1000 dead.

 

There certainly has NOT been "weeks and weeks of testing".

I would recommend listening to experts in contagious disease in terms of how growth rate works and how to slow it when there are no vaccines or treatments available.

 

Italy is intimately tied to China over our objections and objections of the rest of the EU. Why we had no mass testing 7 years after H1N1 probably explains why Trump agreed with Bolton to get rid of the pandemic group. Isolating the US early on is responsible for our low number of infections. It's easy to test people for death. We know that number COLD!!

 

What you have to ask yourself is if this virus is not serious at all and it is just a media induced panic why are so many countries shutting down businesses, mass gatherings, sporting events and travel?
Why would they be damaging their own economies and risking a worldwide recession if the death rates are so insignificant?
Do you really think that governments all around the globe are so weak that they let an over reacting media cause them so much damage?
Are all of the experts and advisors also making a mountain out of a molehill?

 

With all those other crisis that you listed how many times did governments take the same drastic measures that they are taking now?
Do you really think that nations around the world would risk a worldwide recession on a whim or because of media induced panic?

 

That’s what is happening now.

 

Why didn't it happen to the same extent with all the other health scares mentioned?
Any sensible person might conclude that this is more serious.

 

You didn't read or comprehend a single thing I said.

 

This is true the less time our kids spend in the public school system the better off they will be.

 

Yes, this would be the perfect time to liquidate the massive education boondoggle and transfer the revenue to the productive working class. Much of it should go into vested individual education accounts for parents and guardians of students to use to hire independent educators once they are liberated from the corrupt, dangerous failed system we have now.

 

If you're old, frail and sick, prone to getting knocked off by common illnesses, it is dangerous to you. But then again, life is dangerous to you.

 

True - surely this is the best approach.

What they do out of school is important, too. The idea that all across America K-12 kids will be sitting in their homes and apartments. Plus, those on food programs, etc. still need help.

Even my 1.5 year old granddaughter goes stir crazy when restricted to home.

 

We all need to try to stay out of our hospitals.

They are already filling up, needing scarce resources (like ventilators, beds, staff) in order to come through this.

Those in the hospitals are NOT just those in at risk groups. Those not in at risk groups are less likely to show up in mortality stats, but that doesn't mean won't need serious medical attention if infected.

If our hospitals get swamped, they will have to start making "death pannel" decisions.

If you can't accept what Trump, your governor, and the CDC says, how about looking up what Taylor Swift says.

 

pleas give bed census data to support your hospitals filing up claim

 

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...rains-seattle-areas-capacity-to-deliver-care/

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/ho...rea-healthcare-workers-test-positive-covid-19

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...onavirus-covid-19-us-cases-health-care-system

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/

Nobody has exact counts, as hospitals are digging to turn new areas into beds for COVID treatment, suspending surgery that isn't absolutely required (which has included cancer surgery), looking for equipment (ventilators, etc.), watching staff who have become exposed drop out.

Hospitals ARE an issue - bed count is an issue, but NOT the only one limit they face.

 

Y2K was headed off by a massive software effort that did not initially seem likely to be successful. Taking no other action would have been grossly irresponsible.

So, you believe in gravity! How do you think water gets into water towers? Do you even know WHY we have water towers??

How about listening to experts?

 

There are more rhinovirus patients in hospitals then there are coronavius.
Nothing is filled up

 

is this happening in the Islamic world or not: