[DugwayDuke]

DannyTN wrote: “Because it’s 20 times deadlier that the flu and there is a chance to stop it or slow it down.”

Or, maybe not. We only have Chinese data. We know it disproportionately affects males, the elderly and smokers. Almost 50% of chinese males smoke. China has no real idea how many are infected. They’re making their data up.

[DannyTN]

I agree that the Chinese data is mostly meaningless.

• A study of the first 91 cases, over 10% died.
• Of the 64 cases reported by the US, 1 has died (1.5%)
• Europe is showing numbers higher than 2%.

The US number of 1.5% reflects a health care system that is not overwhelmed. If the system gets overwhelmed, rates will go up.

Which is why I post, I want to see them do whatever is necessary to stop the spread in the US. Greater Travel restrictions, more quarantines, better enforcement of quarantines, more testing, better testing, etc.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s one of the reasons that I personally think we’ll have a much smaller proportion of severe cases than China has. I’m guessing 10% at most, since we’re operating from a much healthier baseline than the Red Chinese: much less pollution, only about 20% of our adult population smokes, if that, we have mucho vaccinations for other things that could complicate cases, etc.

As for the optimist trolls dismissing everything, OK, dittoheads!