[calenel]

“Only guns on the border will stop what’s coming. They are but a few weeks behind the US.”

I agree.

“When the big cities collapse, all hell will break lose.”

Pray it doesn’t get that bad.

[Thud]

I seriously doubt Mexico will collapse. The Wuhan Virus is not lethal enough and most of its victims think it's only a cold. Loss of income from the border factories and remittances will be more of a problem, and not a serious one. Mexicans already despise their de jure and de facto governments.

IMO Mexico will come out of this better than we will in terms of feelings of loss. We'll take a serious decline in our standard of living, given inflation and higher taxes, and that will affect national morale.

[calenel]

Just for comparison purposes, in the US, the Swine Flu killed 12,439 over the course of 15 months, from the first death reported until the pandemic was officially declared over. That’s an average of 27 per day. Certainly there were “good” days and bad days (and an intermission), but just for the sake of comparison. About 60 million were infected.

In 1 month since the first reported death in the US, CCP-19 has killed 2,588. That’s about 89 per day. Only about 1-2 million have been infected.

So the next guy that comes along asking why we didn’t do this for H1N1, ask them what they think the death toll would have been if we didn’t do this for *this* one.

It’s not the flu.

And we still have a ways to go.

[GOPJ]

“When the big cities collapse, all hell will break lose.”

I'm going to assume the first cities to collapse will be large democrat cities in democrat states... What's your guess.