If this virus is a truly serious killer. Then why hasn’t China been decimated because of it?
maybe because they sealed off hubei ,,,dug up or barricade roads, dragged people to quarantine camps, and force people to stay indoors for weeks...and even welded people in and built 1000 bed hospitals
try to do the above in a western country where people have more freedoms
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The updated #PUI definition for #COVID19 accounts for the new geographic spread of the virus & includes a list of affected areas w/ widespread or sustained community spread & will likely be revised. https://bit.ly/3afhjFI.
You forgot to mention that given that the Chinese numbers seem most likely to be produced by the same sorts of people who produce numbers for Bernie, we have no reason whatsoever to conclude that China isn’t being decimated.
The South Korea and Diamond Princess numbers look to be the first case studies that are going to give us solid information on what goes on here. But I think that we are going to need 3-8 weeks before things have progressed enough there to have stuff based on demonstrable history.
By then, it seems possible that the solid data will be telling us where two thirds of the world is going, whether they want to go or not.
In the mean time, just remember that the flu kills a zillion people a year, and that China wants to trash its economy as an early April fools joke, and everyone can sleep happy waiting for the tooth fairy to come.