In many ways this mess is causing a bigger public panic and overreaction than HIV/AIDS and Ebola combined. And they were certain death regardless of your age or how healthy you were when you contracted it. Sure its a lot easier to catch the flu, hence the yearly cold and flu 'season', but its just that. A particularly bad case of the flu. I am waiting for Hollywood to make up corona virus movies like they did for those two. Maybe one will get an Oscar for best picture like Philadelphia with a patient struggling to cope with the flu. ?
In actual fact of course things like the flu did kill those with HIV. But that also was the point. Their immune system crashed and couldnt fight it off. To put things into perspective I remember one particularly silly movie, that actually was meant to be a serious drama, where the 'solution' to deal with areas hit with Ebola was to kill them all with a MOAB. So the question is whether or not the coronavirus is bad enough to warrant nuking entire areas to eliminate it. Or is this all unjustified panic.