Originally Posted by
Coathanger
The deaths are only part of the story. The economic cost of a significant chunk of the workforce being down with a virus is the reason many large companies now pay for the flu vaccine for employees.
If the mass majority of those workers are healthy enough to get back to work two weeks after the symptoms hit, and they can be around 50% productive using their smartphones and laptops while suffering the symptoms, then it should not be such a bad hit to the economy. Nowhere near as bad as the current panic. IMHO.
Originally Posted by
fransknorge
Sorry. I must have read some bogus stat in that respect. Maybe it should have read as 50m injured in auto accidents. But I did just read that 130 million babies are born each year, according to the UN.