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The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria

The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

If you have just cancelled your trip to Venice and ordered your £19.99 surgical face mask from Amazon, how about this for a terrifying vision: by the time we get to April, 50,000 Britons will have succumbed to a combination of infectious disease and adverse weather. Frightened? If you are, don’t worry: you survived.

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