[deanhills]

One thing I learned today is that so far there has only been a 2% death rate of all those who got the Corona Virus.  Those who passed on were either older people with weak immune systems or individuals with lung or respiration issues.  The death rate for the normal flu is much higher.  So I wonder who stands to make so much money out of marketing this Virus to the extent it's been marketed. The stock markets? Wonder how many stock brokers put in orders favouring the fall in prices?

But yes, @xdude has a good point.  Like the same thing was said of the ebola virus that it seems to be contained to middle of Africa.  But again, there is no comparison between Ebola and Corona if one takes the very low record of Corona virus deaths compared with Ebola.

If the reports of today are correct.

Another thing we've learned with SARS - the previous similar virus - is that the virus can change itself. It could change into something completely different tomorrow to adapt to its new environment for example.  As much as the virus originated from an animal source (if that is indeed the correct source) it can also then transfer to different settings and human beings.