500,000 by April is 2 million by early May. With 20% requiring hospitalization and poof--not a single open hospital bed in the USA. |
There was definitely similar hysteria with Ebola. |
No, the hysteria about Ebola was hysteria. This is planning and paying attention to current events. |
Chill. You?re being irresponsible spreading this ridiculous misinformation. I guess that would be your aim, though... |
Numbers don?t indefinitely trend upwards. China has barely any new cases, and South Korea now also seeing a decline. |
"Few thousand" = 10% = 50,000 There are fewer than 100,000 ICU beds in the whole country. |
That's because China and South Korea have reacted MUCH more vigorously than we are, have more capacity and willingness to take drastic measures, and, in the case of South Korea (and maybe even China) have better medical systems than the U.S. |
Really? I have zero recollection of a similar panic. Did schools close or did Amtrak have to reduce their train frequency or... |
Actually Ebola was much scarier, mortality rate was over 60 percent and it easily spread to health care workers. There was a few weeks where things looked extremely dangerpus |
They trend upwards until enough people have had it and cleared the virus from their systems that herd immunity kicks in. If you want to compare us to China then you really need to start seeing the steps China took happen here. Everyone is locked in their homes and only one person may leave once a month to get food. Those draconian steps will NEVER EVER EVER happen here. |
I read that it was because Ebola was so dangerous to an individual, and everybody who got it showed symptoms, it was much easier to control the spread. |
China is basically a prison, in case you haven't notice. LOCKDOWN. You think you'll get anything at all like that here? As if. |
They can easily trend upwards to the level of the flu--that's 40,000,000 in case you didn't know. |
everyone that quotes China and points to that as a reason not to worry about it is either purposely trying to confuse the situation or they're outright ignorant. |
You can tell who the Fox News viewers are. Yes, Fox was needlessly hysterical about Ebola because it helped their anti-Obama agenda. And now those same Fox viewers don't believe that coronavirus is a problem because they were fooled before. So sad. |