The world is holding its breath - better that than breathing in a virus and having any new news stick in your throat. Almost all over the world, at least where there is such a thing as public life and social services, they have been closed and indefinitely it shall remain so. Preferably until people bash each other's heads in frustration and the problem is thus eliminated from the world.
The unprecedented apparent panic attack that has afflicted the industrialised nations and spread everywhere by March at the latest is mysteriously ensuring that the flu epidemic in Germany does not experience the impact it did in previous cycles, which saw 258 deaths in 2010, 274 in 2015, 237 in 2016, 722 in 2017, 1674 in 2018 and 954 in 2019. Without meaning to or that anyone suddenly cared, workplace bans and curfews, which because of stupid laws here are called enforced closures due to risk of infection and contact restrictions, have ensured reduced new infections in Germany that could otherwise have caused an increased curve in the last two months of the flu season. While more than 1.8 million workers were still on sick leave in the epidemic year 2018, the newly unemployed as well as home and short-time workers do not even have the chance to shirk their duties in this way. Now that's some positive news.

While Johns Hopkins releases live figures(the ranking list by nation for those infected, those who died of and with the virus, and those cured for the first time), the Robert Koch Institute reserves the right to keep all figures except the SARS-CoV2 figures from the previous day quiet indefinitely, lest other diseases can convey having more drastic effects. Fortunately, the authority with the cholera fighter as its namesake cannot be blamed for the fact that no one cares about anything else and the health number-crunchers do their job.

Another positive aspect of the fact that there is nothing but panic in the world because of the coronavirus, and that the government is telling industry, institutions and not least private individuals to sit out the crisis, is the welcome easing of the situation in the health sector. Because, for example, cardiovascular diseases that are treated too late, such as infarctions, the suspicion of which used to drive people to hospital emergency rooms, account for only 40% of deaths in Germany and rank only slightly ahead of causes of cancer, the morbidity to be expected cannot be compared with the hyped-up respiratory diseases.
Was it the WHO's plan to restore the natural balance between industrialised nations and poor countries without intact health systems in this way? Because if people no longer dare to go to the doctor when they have stabbing pains in their chest because they could get infected with a virus in the waiting area, then of course you have to compare this with the conditions in Central Africa, where as many people die of hunger a day as do not die of respiratory diseases in the rest of the world in the whole year.