30 days and we will all be back to normal, the stock market will be racing back to the top again and life will be back to normal, our country will not be hit as hard as the other countries and I hope the media PAYS heavily from public rebuke for the absolute hysteria they have created!!!
“ 30 days and we will all be back to normal, the stock market will be racing back to the top again and life will be back to normal, our country will not be hit as hard as the other countries and I hope the media PAYS heavily from public rebuke for the absolute hysteria they have created!!!”
Ok, cool. Don’t touch your face.
“30 days and we will all be back to normal”
Maybe in 30 weeks. In 30 days I fear we’ll be a far sight from normal.
I sincerely hope that you’re right. FWIW, my boss told me that the CDC predicts that US cases will peak in June.
I hope you're right that in 30 days we will all be back to normal and the stock market races back to the top again and life is back to normal.
But that will only happen if the kinds of measures that are currently being put in place continue to be.
I am not an epidemiologist, but I have studied epidemiology, preventive medicine, and statistics at the graduate level at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and have a Master's Degree in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University. I have worked with medical and epidemiological data at multiple world renowned organizations for over 30 years. Let me assure you that the time to implement preventive measures is ALWAYS when action seems like overreaction.
We are late to the game as it is. In just the last 7 days, the number of confirmed cases in the United States has increased by 7.4 fold. Not 7.4%, mind you, but 7.4 fold. In other words, there are 7.4 times as many confirmed cases in the U.S. today than there were just 7 days ago. Let that sink in, and do the math. As I write this, there are 1,322 confirmed cases in the U.S. Multiply that by 7.4, and that is how many confirmed cases we can expect next Wednesday evening. Do it again, and that's how many we can expect by March 25. Do it again.... the numbers get really big really, really fast.
The time to institute known successful preventive measures is now, before the hospitals are overwhelmed. If we don't, then we can expect to become like China, Italy, Iran, and Seattle within a few short weeks. With a 7.4 fold increase each week, we can expect almost 4,000,000 confirmed cases within a month. That's the simple math. Still preventable, but only if we implement all the social distancing measures right now.
But, of course, if everything goes back to normal relatively quickly, you will be one of the ones who says it was all hype, rather than one of those who acknowledges that the public health strategies that are known to work did, in fact, work. It kind of reminds me of those who thought Y2K was overblown because nothing major happened. They are people who literally don't know what they are talking about.
The normalcy bias is strong in you. It is preventing you from recognizing when things are decidedly abnormal.
Don't expect me to respond to any comments of yours. I give Flu Bros one comment, and then you're on your own, because you don't listen, anyway.