210589, the issue is that not testing is hastening the spread. each infected
Posted by poetx, Sat Mar-07-20 06:33 PM
person (in china, and i think it held up in s korea, where it trust the data better) infected > 2 other ppl.
china locked down entire cities. s korea has tested over 200k people.
in the US we have potentially 2 -3k infected people who could be asymptomatic and infecting 6k ppl. who will then infect 12k. then 24k. then 48k. then 96k. then 192... then 384k, then 768k, then 1.5m
if the 80% who get mild cases are never identified and controlled, we can end up with over a million people infected, with 20% of cases being major, that's 200k hospitalization cases which would overwhelm our healthcare system.
china took a huge L on their economy because they understood how serious this was. it looks like it paid off and that their outbreak has peaked.
stupid ass trump is seriously musing about letting all the people die on the ship so the US' numbers don't go up. and put all business and pr type people in charge of this to try to keep from fucking up the stock market, which is already fucked up.
this is being handled in the worst possible way.
peace & blessings,
x.
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