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Originally Posted by statsman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020..._United_States
63 deaths in the US. Over 3100 active cases (New availability of testing has this number growing quickly). The fear is of a situation like Wuhan or Italy where the hospitals were overwhelmed with very sick, very contagious people, leaving too few resources for others needing significant care.
Italy went from 620 cases on Feb. 22 to 10,000 on March 4. They have only doubled in the 11 day’s since they shit the country down. The US had over 600 on March 4, and 11 day’s later we are over 3,000. That’s better than Italy, especially for our larger size, but no reason for a parade yet.
The runs on the stores are ridiculous for some items (why water? Do they think the utilities are closing?) but understandable for others (sanitizer).
In my opinion, refusing to try social distancing is stupidly selfish and not brave independence. We need to flatten this curve of growth to buy time, time for treatments, time for a vaccine, time for hotter temperatures.
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Can’t argue, the numbers will definitely rise as testing becomes more prevalent. On the flip side I saw an interview on CNN where a person that was tested positive said she felt like she had a cold for a couple days and then was fine. That will be the majority of cases. Yes, we all should take REASONABLE precautions as you stated, and the vulnerable need to be extra careful, but frankly this Armageddon mentality that people are adopting disgusts me. The end is not near stupid-stupid people, wash, use sanitizer, avoid gatherings, everything will be fine. For those of you hoarding toilet paper (when did that become a cure for a virus?) hunker down in your nuclear bomb shelters and wait for the end of the world, the reasonable humans of the race will take appropriate precautions and go on living.