Thanks, Still not as bad as the seasonal flu mind, A lot of fuss over nothing. Perhaps if china were to lock their country down the whole planet wouldnt be losing its shit over a cough
If you are acting especially stupid - at least loose the bravado. Or ask a question once first.
So "this be just cough" - so whats the issue?
Math.
Against several strands of flu virus, there already are resistances in the public, against COVID-19 there arent. So it spreads exponetially (30%-35% more patients every day), seasonal flu does not, and as there is no resistance in the public, COVID-19 doesnt slow down on its own. (Thats why states have to do stuff.)
Also, we are long, long past the stages, where this was just a "regionally limited to china" issue.
For exponential growth - and what it leads to, read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
You are at the beginning stages on that chessboard.
The issue becomes, that at some point during the growth phase you get so many new patients with severe complications one day, that hospitals cant handle them. And next day you get 35% more, and next day you get 35% more of that.
This = systems breakdown.
So everyone is trying to slow down growthrate.
Because you likely slept in school - a virus replicates by linking itself to DNA/RNA, then getting reproduced by your own cells. (
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/science/how-coronavirus-hijacks-your-cells.html ) Your immune system has to learn how to deal with it first, or die. (Or in case of a vaccine, it learns without you 'dying' because the virus compound is inactive). So COVID-19 will eventually become 'just a cough', but until it does - 60-70% of humanity have to get sick first, and it matters if they do so over 10 years, or in 4 months. Death rates increase as people get turned away from hospitals.
There currently is no treatment and no vaccine. This is more contageous that seasonal flu, 80% of people show less symptoms than with seasonal flu (so they can spread it around better and longer), and you are infectious before you first show any symptoms, so you cant stop thxe spread, by telling people, get treatment (curently self isolation) when you first show systems - and the problem will go away - because before that, they already will have infected others.
So the issue here is, that there is literally no 'easy' or 'intuitive' way to stop that exponential growthcurve. Which is why actions are so huge at the moment everywhere. If you still dont see them around you, you likely will at some point. But they only will be put in place after infection rate in your country has reached a certain point, with a certain rate of growth projected. Because they cost 'silly money' (Shut down industrial production together with the rest of society for two weeks min. as currently is happening in my country).
And again, propagation does not naturally stop or slow down. You'll see in you country soon enough... (It would, if you had a vaccine, but you only get that in about two years.
edit: More math issue. So it is beneficial for you to catch it early, because that way, if there are complications, the health system can still carry you and afterwards you should attain immunity? Sure. But if 30% of people think like you there, the health system gets insta crashed. So all you could ever want in the end, is slowing down the daily growth rate.