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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4370375" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>If the coronavirus infects 4 billion and kills 3% of them that's 120 million.  The Spanish Flu infected 1/3rd of the Earth's population and killed possibly 20% of those infected.  But it was a very fast moving virus.  Said to have originated in China but was called the Spanish Flu because it killed over 8 million in Spain alone.  675,000 in the U.S.  And that was in less than a year.  Viruses tend to run their course and are over in hot weather.  So better hope summer comes early this year.  And consider with the world's population at over 7 billion and the crowded conditions of Asia a lot more than 120 million could die and hundreds of millions could be incapacitated for as much as a month.  If there's no vaccine and no way to tell early on who has been infected what's to stop that from happening?</p></blockquote><p></p>