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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy
Extremely well expressed and from one Commercial Pilot to another I wholeheartedly agree. Let’s hold off on declaring the four horses of apocalypse inbound. Is it a serious issue? Absolutely. Do we all need to take appropriate precautions? Absolutely. But as you pointed out, there were far more deaths in the last bad virus and there was no panic, hoarding of toilet paper or other ridiculous demonstrations of human stupidity. I shook my head in disgust at some of the antics portrayed today when I visited my local super market. Toilet Paper? Really?
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Good morning my friend. I believe the massive concern from some here comes from the scientific establishment being 100% convinced that 40-60% of the US population will contact this virus with at least (best case scenario) 1-1.5% death rate. Well with a population of 320,000,000 that would mean 160,000,000 infected and 1.6 Million dead. Also the reason for the forced social distancing is to attempt to prevent all 160,000,000 from getting sick at the same time. We only have 985,000 hospital beds and most of them are being used at any given time so the more we can spread out the infections the better.
My main problem with all this is all the misinformation. This thread has had a bunch of it as well. I have no idea what to believe. I have a very smart friend convinced that the US will be like Italy in a few weeks only he says we will be losing 3000-5000 people a day. He gets this from medical websites and some immunology doctor he listens to on a podcast. You don’t want to know his predictions this will have on small business.
In my opinion we are definitely in a day and age of overreaction in general. We see it with all kinds of other situations. Whether the media, the government and the population are overreacting in this situation we will be finding out shortly. I pray we are because the predictions are too terrible to contemplate.