This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
I think the point though is that its only potentially fatal to a very small percentage of people - there is no vaccone or cure, and the virus is already here. Shutting everything down to the point people are losing their 401ks is asinine when all we're doing is prolonging the inevitable, that without a vax everyone is eventually going to get it. And said vax could take years, or maybe even never be created.
The point is, go about your life, be smart and if you feel sick don't go near elderly people until youre better.
You bet your ass it will, this is a great time to make some money while the market is down. It will go sky high soon enough.
First-time investor because of everything going down in price.
Flattening the curve will literally prolong the economic shutdown by months, maybe even up until around Election Day. You don’t want basically everything shutdown and self-quarantined for all of spring, summer, and a bit of autumn.
It's not just elderly people at risk. Anyone with a compromised immune system is at risk, and that includes people on immunosuppresants like Enbrel, Humira, and Talz.
If you're not feeling well, please stay home. Your neighbor or co-worker may be on immunosuppressants, and you'd never know.
It's smart because we can slow the spread of the virus. This gives us more time to ramp up testing and protocols to fight it. The more experience we have dealing with this disease the more we can lower the death rate. Its also believed that the virus cannot survive very hot weather . If we make it to june/july without severe community spread we will be okay, and the economy we rebound bigly.