I had been watching only the “not China” numbers too, just posted the totals from everywhere as they are interesting.
It seems that China, Iran and Italy are bad, but everywhere else is doing pretty well all things considered.
Sorry if I’m not panicked enough to fit in.
No need to panic, but it is helpful to remember that there is no wall between Italy and the rest of Europe, or Iran and the rest of the Middle East (mostly).
There were several weeks there where the virus had a chance to spread without travel restrictions.
You don’t want to confuse reported cases with potential actual cases—there is probably a couple of weeks lag time there, and another couple of weeks lag time before hospitals begin to feel the stress...
Bottom line—we are probably a couple of weeks away from having a decent idea of where we are on this...
No, that is the level of panic we like.
Numbers are good. Not enough people use them.
*SIGH*
We’re not panicking.
What we’re doing is watching trends and planning accordingly.
The bottom line is that nobody knows what’s going to happen with this. It may burn itself out. It may be a repeat of the Spanish flu. It probably is going to be something inbetween.
In light of OTHER people panic buying, it behooves us to be prepared, which is what many of us have been doing for many years now. By doing that, we are now NOT contributing to shortages of supplies and overcrowding, resulting in an increased spread of this.
We can sit back and watch while the world MAYBE goes to hell, and know we are not going to starve.
If you want to see panic, go over to Reddit and see their corona virus threads. Someone else mentioned that and I went and checked it out. THAT’S panic. The discussions those of us who have been preparing for a while now are having pales by comparison.
It seems that China, Iran and Italy are bad, but everywhere else is doing pretty well all things considered.
Italy isn’t even that bad. Another day where you can count on one hand how many have died in Italy from Coronavirus. I wonder how many died from the flu today in Italy? My bet it is more than 5.
You forgot South Korea.
I think South Korea is the best indicator how the virus will act in the US big cities, they have a very health system. South Korea is also very good at documenting numbers.
When I visited Italy and Spain I was not impress at all.