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Comment by mlang23 | Hacker News Reader

People die on a daily basis, especially elderly ones. Sorry, but I am not buying this hype.

So it's OK to make even more people die? I'm sorry but Italy is not over-reacting, prevention is fundamental in an outbreak. Btw, I'm also from Italy, and I'm happy that all the concert/events that I had to go in February/March are cancelled, health first.

I am not paying a visit to my elderly relatives. Nor do I work in healthcare nor elderlycare. So the risk of me infecting a person from a risk-group is pretty non-existant. If someone in such a group is visiting a music festival, that is the risk they are taking. Time will tell how much the overreacting will cost italys economy. It looks like it is going to be pretty bad. Tourism alone is going to cost big figure numbers.

Even if your life is dominated entirely by self-interest, and the interests of the rest of the population isn't important to you, don't you have any elderly relatives? Or friends with pre-existing conditions?

Speaking only for myself, I have elderly in-laws who I'd rather stick around, a wife with asthma and I know well two people on immunosuppressants. So I'm not taking this lightly at all.

I am not paying a visit to my elderly eelatives in the upcoming weeks and maybe months. So much I have already stated elsewhere. HOWEVER, the original question was how much people are concerned regarding this. And I stand with what I've said, I am not concerened about Coronavirus killing me. And I think some western countries, like italy, are overreacting.

Now that is just an amazingly callous comment.

Thanks for your comment. I learnt a new word!

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