Questions:

Random questions that I have (not attempting to lead or even make any suggestions - no agenda here just some legitimate questions):

- When coronavirus was confined to China, we saw incredible and sensational videos and pictures which were "leaked" from Wuhan - ones that showed multiple people dropping dead, both in the streets, in hospitals or pictures of dead bodies lying in a pool of blood. There were subsequent suggestions that this was a biphasic virus, the second "wave" an ebola type reaction triggering massive internal bleeding and sudden death. We also saw "leaked" videos of physicians (in masks) warning us of how severe this virus was and other various leaked warnings. We saw leaked videos of streets being closed off, apartments being locked up, roads barricaded or people being captured by police and thrown in an ominous looking van? The world reached maximum hype and worry before the virus ever left China, and it has never subsided despite very good clinical data now under review. As mentioned earlier, from solid data in Israel and at least one cruise ship, it appears that the "serious" rate of infection is close to 1.3%.  Why?

--- Questions: 

------ Why have we never seen leaked videos from China before this outbreak? How about leaked videos when churches are closed? Or when people are taken and incarcerated due to being in church or pastors taken from their homes? Or for that matter any other "leaked" videos? Isn't that a reasonable question? We only see leaked videos from China during this outbreak for a few weeks? Why? Doesn't China completely control media and internet? How did these leak?

----- Why aren't we seeing any leaked videos now from China? 

----- Why aren't people dropping dead and bleeding out in other countries like they did in China?

----- Does this virus hit Chinese citizens differently than it does people in the rest of the world? If so why?

-----How did this subside so rapidly in China? A population with over a billion people? In a matter of weeks it is now a non-factor in China.  Now they are already back to being close to capacity in the workforce. How did this happen? 

-----The numbers from coronavirus look nothing like SARS, H1N1, Ebola etc...Why was there no hype around these outbreaks as they were occurring?  Why now, when the numbers look somewhat unremarkable?

----- Be careful when listening to the pundits on TV. One disingenuous game that is being played goes as follows: "The corona virus has _____ x more death/seriousness than "regular flu"...You will hear 0.1% for "regular flu" and anywhere between 3.4-5% for the coronavirus. Here is what you aren't being told. The numbers given for coronavirus are based on # deaths/confirmed (tested) cases...Yet for "regular flu the numbers are given for # deaths/estimated cases. Using estimated cases in the denominator makes the death rate from "regular flu" appear much smaller (thus the 0.1% thats being quoted).  It's an apples and oranges comparison. If "regular flu" was using the same criteria (# deaths/confirmed cases) the death rate from "regular flu" would be far higher and exceeding coronavirus. Why is this being done? Why isn't "estimated" cases being used in the calculations for coronavirus?

----- The numbers from Israel which are very reliable consistently now show a 1.3% of coronavirus cases as serious (no deaths) which is consistent with the study done of the cruise ship passengers. These data closely mimic a clinical study (well, at least as much as possible) - why aren't these numbers ever quoted by the media? 

No answers, just questions...Questions that anyone should have if watching this unfold - and questions worth keeping in the back of your mind as we watch this situation evolve.