Originally Posted by
Maya
We have one confirmed case here in Seattle, WA, USA and I'm not sure whether or not we got that person quarantined before it spread any further.
It's made it's way here to Australia as well - 4 confirmed in NSW, one in Victoria.
Not really too personally concerned though. This is like, what, the 4th major pandemic we've had growing up? Swine flu, bird flu and there was another one or two before that. Definitely wouldn't want to be in Wuhan, but statistically, I don't think there's much chance of me or anyone I know being affected by this. I think there's definitely something to be said here about media scaremongering - This aint no WWZ (which you might think it is, if you tuned into some TV news reports). I reckon I'll continue carrying on worrying about my country burning to the ground, rather than this.