Makes sense and it makes the death rate way lower than suspected.... Much less then 1%. So if you’re not old and decrepit like most of us are, then you’ll be fine.
I don’t know. This reaction basically handcuffs people in their reaction to it.
The information here implies that a lot more people have it than are recorded as having it, which lowers the death rate...otherwise, we would see deaths occurring in much higher volumes than what is being seen.
If all these measures are taken place, and the virus is stopped before peak, even if the economy is severely damaged, this will be loudly proclaimed as the way to approach these things.
And I don’t think that is a good thing. Granted, we won’t know.
The China outbreak coincided with a peak time for flu season, and we are shutting down everything at what, for the last 36 years, has been the “tail” of the flu season at these latitudes, reliably starting up in November, and sputtering out in early to mid-March each year.
That means when the coronavirus started up here in the USA, it was already past peak.