Let’s do some math to help you understand what happens as this spreads:
Italy had a total of 68,000 deaths attributable to flu in the winter months between 2013 and 2017. That’s 5 years worth of deaths, or an average of 13,600 flu deaths per year.
Italy currently has 6,077 coronavirus deaths, and their hospitals look like a war zone. There is no sign of significant slowing.
There are 3,204 in ICU, and a queue of 4,800 waiting for ICU treatment. Doctors are predicting that patients over 60 will start getting denied ventilators.
BEAR IN MIND, this is with STRICT lockdown measures. If you are caught outside without a good reason, you can literally be arrested and charged - certainly fined 2,000 euro.
Italy will easily surpass a yearly flu death total in the next ten days... WITH STRICT LOCKDOWN. (Unless chloroquine + azithromycin gives a miraculous turn in the trend.)
Italy claims that 99% of fatalities had “existing conditions.” Of that, they identified 75% as having (ready for this?) HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. That’s right, an “existing condition” that 46% of Americans are estimated to suffer from. So half of America potentially has a fatality inducing “existing condition.”
But you focus on deaths, right? The problem is, death isn’t the only outcome that sucks bad from coronavirus. There are multiple reports of follow-in illnesses, like pulmonary fibrosis, and organ damage, among even the young and healthy that recover.
This is about to blow up in India. New York City will be the next Wuhan in the United States.
BEAR IN MIND, this was all after the horse got out of the barn.
It does no good to lock the place after the burglars left.