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
Every country is shutting down. Not only the US. The problem, as experienced in Italy, is that there aren't enough intensive care beds and ventilators to keep every patient alive. This is a curable disease, WHEN you have enough resources. Imagine a hospital can take care of ten people per day and get them back to good health. Now imagine that same hospital has to deal with 100 patients per day. In Italy they literally decide not to ventilate (AND SAVE!) people over 60 who are in bad shape because there's not enough ventilators. This is in Lombardia, one of the richest and most prosperous areas of Italy and Europe, not exactly a shithole.
Perhaps a more sensible approach would be to quarantine the elderly and let everyone else gain group immunity by eventually contracting the disease. At least they wouldn't completely fuck up the global economy.
TIL 80% of the_donald are conspiratards incapable of reading world news.
"Liberal Media" is US media believe it or not other sources exist outside the US