IMHO the numbers themselves were irrelevant to me.
Military quarantine of 11M people, digging up the secondary and tertiary roads to enforce that.
Wow, when have you ever seen THAT before?!
Agricultural sprayers in the streets even...
Yes, it was the extreme actions that got my hackles up. My son told me tonight that I told him this was going to be a pandemic back in January but he thought I was overreacting.
My son, as an aside, pitched in probably his last hs baseball game this week. It was a regional game and a must win. He only gave up 2 runs in 6 innings, and they won by a huge margin.
He knows he may never play hs ball again (as a sr), so when they suspended hs sports I asked him how he felt about it. He said he was sad but that our health meant more to him. A little later was the first time that I had a really good cry about what is happening.
He did tell me, though, that he would like some cash for online games. And that he wants to buy stock in skype or something similar.
“IMHO the numbers themselves were irrelevant to me...Military quarantine of 11M people, digging up the secondary and tertiary roads to enforce that...Wow, when have you ever seen THAT before?!”
Yep, agree. Add to that the cremations going 24/7, the near-shutdown of China’s economy, plus the vectors shooting out from Wuhan and showing up around the world (in other words, it took a lot of infected people in Wuhan to cause Wuhan-linked infections to start popping up in multiple countries around the world).
We saw it, processed it, and responded to it. Others, many here, figured that ‘government’ would save them and protect their money in the stock market. We knew government could not ‘save them’ - there are limits as to what government can do...we were going to be cut loose and on our own through this, just as in China.