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
If you knew anything about epidemiology, you wouldn't make that statement. Look up Farr's Law.
Or ask yourself: why has the virus already peaked in China, which has 1 billion people and a far higher rate of exposure?
China did extensive and thorough quarantines. We don’t have that here to nearly the same extent.
Yeah, they only quarantined after massive exposure, yet still....it peaked.
China totally botched the quarantines. That's the truth. They let it spread unchecked for two months - including letting 5 million people out of wuhan and then decided to clamp down like crazy to compensate.
But that is not the best approach.. China is trying to seem superior to the West but they are not..
I mean it’s past peak in China and they’re already getting back to “normal” so...
Even after the botched job, they still managed to contain the disease. That’s why I don’t get why people here seem to think widespread community spreading is inevitable. China isn’t superior to the West, so there’s no reason we can’t contain it.