When this is all sorted out and we have the spare test kits and a couple years to monitor COVID-19, we're going to find that infected virtually everyone and it has a mortality rate close to the common flu of about 0.1%.
In addition, and we'll find this out a lot sooner than later, we will find that all this economy killing stuff: the self-quarantining, social-distancing, school closings, restaurant closings, daycare closings.... we're going to find that it didn't do anything to "flatten the curve" in any substantial manner.
So we are currently killing our economy and reducing our ability to respond to the impending needs for a snake-oil cure that apparently nearly every world leader has purchased.
Yup I completely agree. The deathrate rate has already plummeted as more data comes in
Agree 100%
Chicomvirus deaths, speculative in number, are the costs of doing business as America and the survival of American society, culture and economy. This virus cannot and must not destroy America -- no jobs, no work, no savings, no cruises, no schooling, no socializing, no entertainment, no beaches, no sports, no fucking quality of life... That is unacceptable. Let the virus do as it will with US using common sense -- hand washing, staying home if sick, elderly be careful, no more handshaking...but we cannot stop LIVING and become viral prisoners. Fuck that.
In April, 1975 during basic training at Ft. Jackson, one of the drill sergeants yelled this at us: "You maggots are expendable. You will die for your country if called to do so." I remember that clear as light. He was then correct and still is, IMHO.
Exponential growth projections are easy to prove false
After 10 days, New York's mortality rate is still between 0.6% and 0.7%, while the WHO rate which justified the whole corona panic was 3.4%.
The data collected is not reliable and tainted by selection bias : https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
Got any sauce on that death rate?
Italy isn't the US. Last I heard the US didn't have death panels.