The pandemic of Fear

Corona Virus Covid -19

Disease - Flu like infection

Main Symptoms - Cough, Fever and Difficulty in breathing. 

Mortality rate - About 3 percent so far 

Effects - world wide panic, lock down of entire regions, possible collapse of economies 

What is amazing is that a virus that causes no more than mild to moderate infection in most people and which is completely curable in 97% cases, has managed to scare more than half the world into sheer idiocy.

Be it hoarding necessities like everyday grocery items for either personal use, apparently for the next ten years or with the intent to sell these items off at inflated prices due to shortage in the market (a shortage created by the hoarders themselves), the list is endless. 

Under normal circumstances when society panics, governments take it upon themselves to restore sanity.  But who is to restore sanity when governments start to panic?

Countries are shutting down borders, forcing people into self isolation and even closing businesses and encouraging others to do so as well. 

Report of every new case of Corona virus infection is received like a death case followed by mass scale alarm.
The "blame game" going on is endless, where everyone is trying to pin the blame of the virus's spread on some country, some government or some official's negligence without accepting the fact that it is a contagious virus. It is going to spread, no matter what. 

True, there are measures to reduce its spread and keep it under control and every one is doing their best to ensure those measures are in place. 

I just wish that they all do it in a more sane and less panic stricken way.

The last thing we need is a Pandemic of fear in our lives.