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 disease starts small. We don’t want NCov to turn into just another flu that comes back year after year but with a 10-30x higher death rate.
You might as well have picked the username "Not a shill" for how convincing you're being of a "Trump supporter" right now.
"I have a sample size of just over 100k and people who have relatively mild symptoms are not being tested, but those mortality rates are super accurate when comparing to the hundreds of millions who come down with the flu each year!!!"
Apparently, being anti-plague makes me a shill!
The models that are used to calculate the death rate account for unreported cases. Their assumptions for how many unreported cases there are may not be entirely accurate, but I tend to err on the side of believing until there’s evidence that the models are wrong.
Show me the models. You might even do me the favor of examining those models for confounding variables (like the sample size being incredibly small comparatively, not everyone being tested, etc etc) to save me the trouble.
And what can you glean from this?