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That's exactly my point. Right now, we don't have any final statistics about it, however what we do know so far - according to virologists - does not make it sound like it'll end the human race.
I don't think anyone is arguing that it's "not a big deal" as such. Just that there is maybe no reason to report about it on the level it is being reported on. Because again, many thousand people can die in a bad flu year in the UK alone and yet we don't see constant frontpage headlines about it. And that's not comparing apples to oranges - it's very directly comparing apples to apples. It just seems very disproportionate, and there are way too many people just staring at the "x people dead" number and freaking out about it.
I think the medical etc. professionals know what they have to do and I trust them to respond to the threat as required. For us 'normal people' in London (or generally in Europe) currently there is nothing we can do, or do differently. I don't like the undertone of "Don't panic, but we'll make sure to report about it in a way that makes it seem like maybe you should panic anyway" in some of the media.