Because there would be mass panic, there would be murder, rape and looting on the streets all over the world. The police and army would be overwhelmed in the first day. Civilisation would break down long before the asteroid hit.
Even a very close miss could do untold damage.
The asteroid is supposed to come no closer than four million miles, but it will come closer in 2079.
I think the media coverage we have now on our phones and TV at the press of a button cause a lot of unnecessary misinformation and panic as we have already seen in the last few weeks.
There is an old saying that ignorance is bliss. I was thir**** in 1968, the thing we Baggies remember that year was winning the cup. I remember people saying that there is a nasty bit of flu going around. That nasty bit of flu killed one million people worldwide. But of course we had no charts or graphs back then to see how many people had it and how many people were dying.
Technology at the tip of our fingers is great, but can also be very unnerving. When you read of the deaths in one day, they aren't telling us that is how many have died that day but how many deaths have been reported that day, they could be a backlog going back a few days.
The one thing that makes me wonder is how this pandemic will end. A lockdown will only slow and contain it, not get rid of it. A virus has no cure. It runs its own course and dies out. Controlling it might make it mutate into something more deadly.
I don't know what the answer is and I doubt if the top scientists of the world know.
If this virus hadn't been so widely reported would people have been worried? If countries to whom money and economies come before people dying of a virus what are they hiding?
It is bad if you get it and i hope to god that i don't or any member of my family or anyone of you on here don't, but is it any worse than previous pandemics when life went on as normal and millions of people died?



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