CORONAVIRUS: 200,000 DEATHS?

ICHEOKU says admitted there is something reassuring, watching and listening to Dr Anthony Fauci go about his now almost daily analysis of the rampaging Chinese Wuhan disease aka Coronavirus, which has turned him into a rockstar contagion specialist. But ICHEOKU was taken aback when he came up with the 200,000 likely deaths of Americans during the course of this pandemic. Although it is an estimate, but it seems to be needlessly on the high side, too far fetched, an overkill of some sort; possibly meant to put the fear of God into Americans, especially those who are not taking the Presidential Coronavirus Taskforce guidelines seriously. 

Based on what if ICHEOKU may ask, the death rate in other afflicted countries considered, including China, the origination point of the virus. As with Italy, ICHEOKU can understand why America's projected death rate could be higher than theirs. America's population is nearly six times that of Italy and ordinary statistical ratio could easily collaborate such disparity. But how about China with a population nearly five times America, why is their death rate far much lower than America's; unless the communist Chinese authority purposely played down their own figures. Why is Russia not suffering the same amount of affliction from the Coronavirus as America is currently suffering or is their own turn yet to come? Why is America with such a shockingly high number of possible deaths from a virus which did not start in America and which gave America some heads up before arriving on its shores? Was anything missed and if, what was it? 

A matter made worse because America is somewhat the big brother of the world and if America catches cold, the rest of the world panics because there will be no one to come to their rescue should they get into trouble. Now, who will rescue the rescuer or is it a case of healer, heal thyself? The times are scary, especially the near hopelessness of the situation, with no feasible sense on when it can begin to ease off. The panic in the land is such that it is getting to a point where if the virus does not kill you, depression forced on people from isolation, joblessness and frustration will. A case of running from the devil and a deep blue sea is blocking your escape path. A Catch-22 of some sort, either way people will die, thus begging the question why suffer all these quarantines, isolation and loss of jobs if it will not make a weighted difference. Why die sad on empty stomach when one can die happy on a full stomach. Americans are not used to living this way and it might lead to increased suicide rate in addition.

Hopefully, it will not be a situation like the president said, where the cure for the disease becomes more devastating than the disease itself. Things are getting ugly. Why the world is facing this plague is beyond comprehension. The nation and the world in general should humble themselves, understanding that there is a higher power above all powers and sincerely seek for a divine help, in addition to all other medical sciences effort being directed at the problem. Anybody who says he or she is not scared about the coronavirus must be living in fool's paradise or oblivious of themselves. It is not a joke. It is a killing machine and very fast at what it does; and it has no respect for anybody. Like with Houston's we have a problem, it is now the entire mankind that is facing the real existential problem. May God help us all, his children, IJN.