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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I for one am not paranoid nor am I expecting much to happen. So far there's been 19 deaths in the US, but 14 are from the same nursing home in Seattle. Which is very unfortunate, but that pattern hasn't spread elsewhere. The rate of hospitalization hasn't increased anywhere else in the country, not even in Seattle. The virus has been spreading around NYC for a few weeks now and we all know the recorded number of positive cases are greatly under counted, but there's been no deaths nor a rush on the hospitals. Mark my words, we'll see growing numbers of positive cases but not much else and after a few weeks it'll be NBD.

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Welcome to DCUM, President Trump![/quote]

Cool it, Karen. I know some people are getting a perverse pleasure out of their fear and paranoia, so feed off it while it lasts. [/quote]

I'm curious, why do you think the virus will just die out? Have you not seen what has happened in Italy? Why do you think the U.S. will be immune from that?

And why do you not care about people in nursing homes? What is being done to keep the virus out of nursing homes?

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We aren't seeing the mass rise in severe sickness requiring hospitalization and deaths despite having time for it to happen.

14/20 of the US deaths are all from just one nursing home. According to the nursing homes some of those deaths went from no signs of infection in the morning to dead by night.

Almost all the other deaths are related to the cruises.

So far we're not seeing people dropping dead from casually picking up the virus despite it's had plenty of time to spread throughout Seattle and NYC by now. The virus numbers have grown in NYC ever since the one man picked it up (and people forget before him there was an Iranian woman) but there's no stampede to the hospitals, there's no outbreaks of deaths. Just look at Seattle, which has had the longest period of outbreak in the US. Are the Seattle hospitals seeing a sharp rise of people seeking medical care? Nope. Even among other elderly care centers nothing is happening.

Of course I care about what happens to the elderly and very sick. [u]And I'm doing my part by staying away from the elderly and very sick. [/u][/quote]

You're right, it's not too bad right now. But this virus isn't going to just stop infecting people. In fact, each person with CV infects, on average, 2-3 other people. So what we've seen in countries where there's been no mitigation, the number of cases doubles about every 6 days.

Let's look at Italy. The first death from CV in Italy was ONLY 16 DAYS AGO. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/coronavirus-outbreak-grows-in-northern-italy-16-cases-reported-in-one-day-idUSKBN20F0UI

That day, February 21st,

[quote]Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he would meet the chiefs of Italy’s civil protection agency, and that the situation was under control.

“We were ready for this (outbreak) ... the people have no need to be worried, we will adopt increasingly severe and precautionary measures,” he said.[/quote][/quote]

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