And that therefore, what is happening to Italy, might happen here if sufficient containment is not acheived.
One other possibility, which I have read of but which I could not find confirmation of, is that there are two strains of the virus, which had different R0 values and morbidity.
It might be that Wuhan (and Italy, which had a LOT of Chinese people in the hardest hit geographic regions, working in the textile and garment industry), had the nasty form; and South Korea and Japan, the milder one.
"Old people are hardest hit" is comforting pablum. Tell that to the survivors of the now-dead-of-coronavirus cardiologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Penn, an Ivy League School). As I pointed out earlier, both as an Ivy Leaguer, and as an MD -- and all the more so as a cardiac specialist -- the doctors would pull out all the stops to treat him. And he died of it.
Oh, btw, he was only 32.
What’s happening in Italy has little or no chance to happen here for one reason all the people in Italy are old. Reason two they have a gazillion Chinese living there. Reason three their healthcare isn’t as good as ours. but feel free to continue to be hysterical.
Imma be at Twisted Taco for lunch tomorrow making merry and drinking a low quality house cab with my best friend. Then imma come home, wash my hands,take a shot of colloidal silver and a shot of elderberry tinture just in case I came into contact with one of the ten or so people in the whole state of GA that have corona virus.