I'm so glad of this thread. I'm sick to the back teeth of all the jokes being posted over on Facebook and people likening it to the flu. It's getting as though anyone who is taking this virus seriously, is open to ridicule and mockery. There are 2 confirmed cases 4 miles from me and people couldn't care less. This virus seems like a lottery depending on how healthy you are, noone can be fully confident they are just going get a few sniffles from it.133 deaths in Italy in 24 hours, unfortunately it is as bad as we thought.
All the people saying don't worry it's just another virus and just like flu need to start taking it seriously now. Italy has 650 people hospitalised and most will probably need respirators, the health secretary said last week we only had 50 spare beds in the UK with respirators.