@yarielist: even the worst reported death rates in the world — currently the US and the UK, both of which elected right-wing morons in their most recent elections, everybody else take note — the death rate is currently less than 6% of people who contract the disease. (US as of today: 1.23 million confirmed cases, 73566 deaths.) Although it’s true that some unknown number of people who have the disease will die rather than recover, it’s
also true that we’re 99.99% certain that there are a
lot of people out there who “have” it but have no symptoms at all, and therefore will never even be tested — the original estimate was that 25% of cases had no symptoms. Later it was raised to 30%, and then to 35%. Recently, France has suggested that the number is closer to 40%, and one of the warships which had an outbreak and had complete testing of all personnel showed that 60% of people with the disease showed no symptoms. So anywhere from a third to two thirds of humanity will never so much as cough even if absolutely everybody in the world catches coronavirus — and the French data suggests that not getting sick from cornonavirus isn’t really linked to pre-existing health issues.
Either the largest or the next-largest group (depending on how large the asymptomatic group really is) is the people who get sick, but not enough to be hospitalized. Currently, the figures show that even among people over 85, less than 20% of coronavirus patients need hospitalization, and that somewhere over 95% of people who show symptoms will recover.
Now do the math: if coronavirus spreads to absolutely everybody in the entire world, at least a third of us
still won’t show symptoms. Humanity has already survived something that only let a third of the population
survive (the Black Death), albeit with a lot of upheaval. But even if you assume that 20% of
everybody who shows symptoms, not just senior citizens, needs hospitalization, and that the hospitals are so overwhelmed that
all of them die, and that only a third of people are asymptomatic, that still means a death rate of about 13% of the population. Civilization will survive, even if it’s traumatic.
tl;dr version: No, this is not an apocalypse. It’s going to be horrible, but most of us are not going to die of coronavirus. Even if you push the worst numbers possible it’s still going to be less devastating than several wars and diseases have been in the past. Get a grip on yourself.