Here is what I don't understand: Wuhan was locked down at a few hundred confirmed cases, way too late and expensive, leading to 68K cases and 3K deaths. China learned the lesson and shut down other places much earlier, leading to <1.5K cases and <20 deaths in each. Why do we do?
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If Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City were Chinese cities, they would be under quarantine, just as Italy is now. Instead we seem hell-bent to wait until each of them turns into Wuhan. Lockdowns are expensive, but every passing day makes them more costly!
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Lockdowns enable the concentration of medical resources and military support into few regions (yes, we will probably need the national guard and the military) instead of spreading the crisis into every corner of the country.
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There are tons of smart people who observed China, Singapore and Italy and can see the writing on the wall. MIT and Stanford have stopped classes and gatherings. Google, Twitter and Amazon have sent their employees home. Is nobody in the administration paying any attention?
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Why is the TSA infecting passengers at airports? Why are thousands of homeless still sleeping and coughing in the streets of San Francisco's city center? Why are testkits still limited? Why are we out of PPE? Why are Alex Azar and Robert Redfield still in charge of anything?
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Why is the Surgeon General lying about the efficacy of masks? Why does most of the press think it's more important to fight a War on Panic than to warn and inform about what's happening? Is there really no adult in the room?
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Your quoted US figure is off by an order of magnitude according to the most recent estimates I’ve seen.
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I don't think it's a magnitude less, because Seattle alone should have more than 1000 cases by now. We have a thousand *confirmed* cases in the US, and only just begun testing. I am optimistic that it is not a magnitude more either, because then we should see more deaths.
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Waiting for the point where we can shut down election in november of course?!?!
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If all the boomers die, there will be less money poured into retirement benefits, less longterm strain on the healthcare system, and all the neets living off their parents will have to go get a job. It's all part of the plan to save America! Woo, Go
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You see, it's kind of like gas chambers, but reusing the existing infrastructure.
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