.......excellent news coming out of Italy......the virus has continued to spread, but at a declining rate........
There were fewer new infections in Italy than there have been in a week. This is not a data hiccup; there have been fewer new infections each day for four days now.
So for all the people who warn of the horrors to come, saying that what happens in Italy will soon happen here, looks like Italy is following the same type of curve that South Korea and, reportedly, China have followed, a curve that, for America, points to hundreds of thousands, but not hundreds of millions, of infections.
That is more likely to be due to them putting more restrictions on people leaving their apartments. Once the restrictions are eased, the rates will most likely climb again.
Which brings up the question of how long the fans of "shelter in place" throughout the US would like to have those restrictions in place. A year? Ten years? The tighter the restrictions, the more people that will have never recovered from the disease and have developed complete immunity to it, so the bigger the flare-up each time the restrictions are eased. The disease won't be eradicated from the earth, so there will always be people actively spreading it to the non-immune portion of the population.