To put Corona-Virus in a true perspective

This is what 100,000 people look like

This photo is of Kyle Field Stadium in the United States of America. It hold just over 100,000 people which is the total amount of people known to have contracted the Corona –Virus. Within this stadium you will see one smallish section which seats 3000  people, which roughly equates to the same number of people who have died from the Virus. The number of people in the world today is not fully known but in 2017 it was 7.2 billion and expected to be 7.7 billion by the end of 2019 and so looking at pure numbers its a very small amount indeed.
By comparison, whilst not underplaying the risk see following figures.

Road Accidents.
On average their are 50 million people affected by road accidents with 1.35 million deaths
Smoking and drugs
around 20 million people die each year from drugs and smoking
From Cancer
Nearly 10 million people year DIE from cancer apart from the millions who are cancer sufferers.

Again I am not downplaying the subject but highlighting how the press has got it totally wrong. Yesterday their was a photo of a store in UK where all the toilet paper had been taken, what it did not show you was the next day that all the shelves were stocked again. Today whilst shopping in the local PUBLIX Supermarket (very much like Waitrose) there at check out was the National Enquirer Magazine, that pillar of honesty, with the headlines 100 million American with catch the Corona Virus and at least three and half million will die. I would presume they based this  on another set of  USA figures that show that there about 100 known cases of people infected with about 6 deaths so far recorded and most of the deaths were due to people having other challenges. People who smoke or take drugs or have high blood pressure and Diabetes and are over 70 are more likely to than a six year old kid that doesn't smoke or have any other illness. Also please remember the population of the USA is roughly 330 million and so with 14 people dead as of today and perhaps 120 affected. If you are good at percentages you can work it out.
On UK TV just recently they interviewed a woman who had bought enough stocks of food and toilet paper to last out a long war and she had obtained over 150 cans of food plus a lot else and then she had the audacity to blame the Government  for the problem of shortages and price rises. If she was an intelligent woman which clearly she wasn't she did not understand that by overstocking and causing others to do the same, aided by the stupid newspapers and TV Companies, that it would create an artificial shortage which has the effect of raising prices to which she was again blaming on the Government quote ‘Who Cannot be trusted’ , actually the quote should really refer to her.
Creating food shortages is always a worry but who will  be the most affected, perhaps your granny who is in a care home and  even another family member in hospital for an unrelated illness could suffer as food supply has been totally disrupted by these stupid people.

OH Well back to the swimming pool