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Honest question: how one can ditinguish coronavirus from other "pandemics" of recent years like svine flu or bird flu or whatnot? Those happened primarily on TV news, and the informational background was about the same: apocalyptic pictures of empty airport, packed hospitals, etc. Why should an average Joe care more this time?

I don't believe any of those had packed hospitals nor piles of bodies, as we've seen for this one.

There are some major differences.

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