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[And for this, we shut down the world’s largest economy?

3,660 - Currently Infected Patients
3,650 - in Mild Condition
10 - Serious or Critica]

Note the parabolic shape of “Active Cases in the United States” graph. The “Total Coronavirus Deaths in the United States”” graph is starting to follow in its footsteps. If unchecked by measures to stop the spread that include mandatory quarantines (that may include minimum security prisoner furloughs and the requisition of prisons to house quarantined individuals in an easy to monitor environment) and regulations re large gatherings, we may soon see hundreds of deaths per day. Just like Italy.

Two points. One - overreaction costs are mainly economic while underreaction costs are in lives lost. No one is going to starve to death from any economic contraction. The Green Revolution a century ago means that 1% of the population produces enough food to make the other 99% obese, with enough surplus to export to godforsaken places like China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Two - this is an election year. The elderly tend to vote for Trump. Leaving aside the purely humanitarian aspects of mass death and illness, we don’t want the elderly shunted off to an early grave or ICU’s so that Democratic ballot harvesters can turn them into Biden voters. We need to put Trump back in office for another term. To do that, we must get this pandemic under control, and soon, to keep elderly voters healthy. And if that means losing a few points of GDP in the next few quarters, so be it. We’ll get them all back once Trump is in for a second term.

Thank you for your sensible post. People who spout off about the low number of cases ought to watch last Monday’s NBA-player Rudy Gobert interview. At the end he mocked the situation by stepping back and touching the microphones. Oh yeah, two days later HE was the guy whose diagnosed sickness shut down the entire NBA.

These mockers also don’t understand exponential growth combined with the fact people are contagious for 2 to 10 days BEFORE they show symptoms. These mockers who act socially irresponsible may be the ones who spread this throughout their city.

The time to put out a fire that’s burning your house down is when it’s VERY small.