He's a specialist.

It's pretty obvious that epidemiologists shouldn't be running our economy.

The media, at the very least, is doing what it can to increase panic of the virus because they see it has an adverse effect on the stock market. So they can blast panic at people and then claim that "Trump's economy is failing".

The stock market is crashing because of actual economic slowdown, not because of panic.

Panic and sudden unreasonable hoarding don't help.

So you think it’s a coincidence it coincides with virus?!

It's all well and good to tell people "It's just money, man. These are lives." But as I told my mother today, it makes no sense to shut down an entire country's economy because of this. Tell the "it's just money, man" schtick to a man who owns a business that employs ten people because the government ain't gonna bail him out, jack. They'll bail out Boeing, though. And ExxonMobile. etc.

It's pretty obvious, the fed has lowered interest rates, other national governments have been shutting down and international trade is near nonexistent.

No the recession wasn’t due until after election UNLESS a natural event bumped up the timeline

This is an ORCHESTRATED coup

You also have county judges here in Texas telling people that they can't congregate in their homes. You can't open your business or bar. I guess property rights don't mean anything anymore in our common law system.

This virus is less deadly than a common cold

20% mortality rate for the elderly.

Now hold up. It is definitely more deadly than the common cold.

20x more deadly than the flu. The common cold doesn't have a measurable death rate because the common cold is so scarcely fatal.

Well there’s a reason we call them “elderly” isn’t there

The deadliness of the Chinese virus is actually closer to a particularly deadly strain of influenza, but only in regards to the elderly, young, and immunosuppressed.

So, y'know, don't visit the old folks home for a while.

You also have to consider people with pre-existing conditions. Diabetes. Hypertension. Heart disease. Lung disease. etc. etc.

Even the flu *(annual strain) has a death rate <1% for elders, the coronavirus is much more dangerous. And @MaikuPens is right, the Spanish flu killed 1% of the world population despite being just the flu.

There will be more suicides than Corona deaths!

If the Democrats really cared about people's lives and preventing contagion, they would shut down the damn border.

Italy was also just really stupid because they had a "Hug a Chinaman" holiday right after the WHO said that we should start social distancing.

And Italy is full of retiring boomers.

The Israelis immediately shut down their borders and had scientists working on a molecular clamp for this thing. this is because they have a functioning society. We don't.

This isn't a coup, it's a natural disaster. Clearly, it's rate of spread is higher than that of the flu (measured reproductive rate of 2 vs. 1), and it's mortality rate is 10-20x higher. That prompts governments to issue lockdowns. Without a vaccine, the disease could kill hundreds of thousands.

Ello ello you should be at home being quite

We probably won't have a fully accurate measure until after the disease is either fully contained or run its course, tbh.

Herd mentality is also unavoidable, so of course people are going to panic. Even modest media coverage won't change that.

"You just want to go to a bar and drink," I hear from some people. Well, hell yeah. It's my hard earned money.

Ofc I want to go pub and drink. I'm British <:TrumpDisgust:624681485525319681>

But Boris grounded me like a kid <:nooooo:624688733211459584>

For all we know, the death rate is overinflated by number disparity. We can tell who died from the virus, but with so few testing kits, we don't know exactly how many are actually infected. So we end up with low numbers of those who are infected and relatively accurate numbers of fatalities.

So, yeah, I tend to be skeptical to any death rates above around 10%, simply because we can't tell yet.

Our testing kit capability is well off enough, so is South Korea's. Death rate is 1.2%. *for both nations

China's rate is 3%, most likely due to inadequate care, Italy's is likely inaccurate.

This is interesting. I'm reading the Dallas County injunction for shelter in place. "vii. News Media. Newspapers, television, radio, and other media services," is labeled as an essential service that is exempt from this injunction. Interesting. The parasitic media gets to harm public health by not practicing social distancing, but God forbid you want to have a funeral mass for a relative. God forbid you need to have your daughter bat mitzvahed.

1.2% seems more accurate.

Then again, it depends on the region as well. New York has a rate that's estimated to be .9%, whereas rural places are more likely to be much higher.

@Pytokonda 🐏 You need to stand in line for your daily bowl of gruel, I guess.

It’s getting bad in upstate ny atm