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<\/a><\/p>\nChina is shutting down, or so we\u2019re being told. Cities are on lockdown. Disneyland is closed. New Year is cancelled. Every day, China closes down more theatres or other more public spaces in their desperate attempts to thwart the spread of this terrible coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n The headlines tell this virus is \u201cmutated\u201d, and that China\u2019s \u201clockdown\u201d is affecting 33 million people<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The Telegraph morbidly warns that it\u2019s \u201chighly likely\u201d coronavirus is already in the UK<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, whilst CNET tells us the deathtoll is spiking<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n It all sounds very scary.<\/span><\/p>\n The reality is that 26 people have died.<\/span><\/p>\n For comparison\u2019s sake, 80,000 people died of flu in 2018 in the United States alone. (at least, according to the CDC<\/strong><\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n Coronavirus \u2013 or rather, this particular strain of coronavirus, as they are very common and mostly harmless \u2013 has had 800 reported cases to go along with those 26 reported deaths. That\u2019s a mortality rate of just over three per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n Further, we don\u2019t even know the details of those 26 unfortunate patients, it\u2019s entirely possible the 26 deaths are accounted for by the very old, the very young, or the immuno-compromised. But even if they\u2019re not\u20263 per cent mortality is not high.<\/span><\/p>\n The death rate of bacterial meningitis, for example, stands at about 10%. Meningitis is an unfortunate fact of life, but it\u2019s not a public health scare.<\/span><\/p>\n SARS, of course, was a public health scare \u2013 totally unjustifiably, as it turns out. Most of you will remember the SARS outbreak of 2002\/2003<\/a><\/strong><\/span> being similarly apocalyptically covered in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n In the end, over the course of just about a year 9000 cases resulted in 800 people losing their lives. These numbers are rough because, as a syndrome rather than a disease, SARS is difficultly to clearly diagnose. Assuming the stats are correct, that\u2019s a mortality rate of about 9%\u2026or three times this \u201cterrifying\u201d coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n The simple reality is that this new virus strain is currently affecting a group of people the size of a small primary school, and has killed fewer than a bad traffic pile-up or a medium-sized drone strike.<\/span><\/p>\n So why the lockdown? Why the fear?<\/span><\/p>\n Usually, that means at least one agenda. Maybe more than one.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ebola outbreak of 2015\/16 resulted in large numbers of NATO-backed doctors descending on Western Africa to \u201cassist\u201d. As a result, ebola vaccines that had been awaiting approval for years got a 2 year field study, before being approved<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n During the 2009 \u201cSwine Flu\u201d panic<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a German MEP accused the World Health Organisation of \u201ccreating a panic\u201d in order to sell vaccines. Though the WHO vehemently denied this, an independent report later found that several of the \u201cindependent flu experts\u201d that WHO consulted had financial ties to vaccine manufacturers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n