[Travis McGee]

These numbers are 3 days old. Deaths are now at 2,500.

That is a doubling rate of 3 days, from 1,246 to 2,500.

That's one hell of a flu.

[SoCal Pubbie]

The last I read around here it was doubling every two days. Hallelujah, the rate has slowed by fifty percent! Can people go back to work yet?

[Fresh Wind]

I believe the rate of colorful spam postings is doubling every 3 days.

[Spruce]

I am trying to understand why so many people fail to realize that this thing is just getting started.

There is this false belief that “Well, we took two weeks off. It’s all over. Really didn’t live up to the dire predictions, now did it?”

This bug is just starting to roll. And we have people concerned that they can’t get back to buying cheep chinese crap at the dollar tree.

You can find that actual documentation on the strategy being implemented by the Executive branch right here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy/index.html

We are in the Mitigation phase. Which puts us on the “up” slope of the curve.

This thing is just getting started.

[Phil DiBasquette]

H1N1 was a piker compared to the Chinese Virus

/s

[Kazan]

If cable news were tabulating the 36 million cases of the flu and the 23,000 deaths this flu season, you'd be ready to swallow a bottle of aspirin.

And, NO ONE is contending this should merely be treated like the flu. What many of us want is to follow the South Korea model -- protect the vulnerable and self-isolate those with it but let healthy people continue to live their lives.