[aMorePerfectUnion]

"A month into it, and there’s 10 or 20 dead. Yeah, this is a real pearl harbor. Meanwhile at least 16,000 have died from the flu. This is an over blown, overhyped, media induced, democrat fueled panic." You sound like the kind of person who should read the article and watch the video it contains.

[DoodleBob]

"A month into it, and there’s 10 or 20 dead. Yeah, this is a real pearl harbor. Meanwhile at least 16,000 have died from the flu. This is an over blown, overhyped, media induced, democrat fueled panic."

The point of this backtest isn't to chastise DesertRhino, but to indicated just what's happening.

Here we are, a week later, and the JH website shows 340 bodies on the US cart, with confirmed cases rising from 3,499 on the 15th to 26,747 as of this morning. True, that's a relatively low body count...more people probably died of boredom last year, and more people were probably confirmed NeverTrumper's last year.

But it does show the velocity of the Coronavirus' spread. In contrast, I don't think we'll see a 17-fold increase in boredom deaths in 2020 (and yes, I know I didn't extrapolate the weekly increase into a yearly increase).

If I saw 10 or 20 dead flies in my home one week, and then next week it looked like the Amityville Horror, I'd take action. Now, is this worth nuking the home/vaporizing the restaurant and related service economies, and leaving waitresses and bartenders to live in Hoovervilles? That's a related discussion that I'll leave for a separate thread. But you get the point.