Snowbird parks and Coronavirus

Me Again wrote:
By Mike Carter , Nina Shapiro, Mary Hudetz and Paige Cornwell
Seattle Times staff reporters

The emergence and spread of the novel coronavirus in Washington and the world has exacted a steep toll in a very few weeks, carving a path of deaths, .

Talk about alarmist reporting. Since the first of the year approximately 500,000 people have died in the US (2,813,742 deaths in 2017, about 7700 per day per CDC) . Of that number 22 are attributed to Corona Virus. By comparison, an average of about 49 Americans are killed by lightning each year. Corona Virus currently is not exactly carving a path of deaths. But that statement sure sells more papers than stating that COVID19 is responsible for about 4/1000th of 1% of the deaths in the US.