1) Yes, those stats are reason ehough to shutdown. You’re looking at the stats with a shutdown. The 3.8% deaths to known cases, gives us an idea of just how bad this could be without a shut down. And we were hoping it was just 1%, when we decided to shut down.
2) Because the virus has a long incubation period. Most who will develop symptoms do so in 5-7 days, but some have gone 14 days. And there have been some annecdotal stories where people may have gone longer. Also the lock down hasn’t been a complete lock down. I read NY subways are still packed. Cuomo called out people for congregating on a bridge. If it spreads in the ventilation system of a building, people will be catching it despite being locked down. Lots of ways this could still be spreading. But the lockdown is working to an extent, as cases have leveled off. Hopefully they start dropping soon.
3) There is a lab between deaths and cases. Some people go on a ventilator for 20 to 30 days before dying. People have been speculating all over the board, I’ve seen last September. I think I’ve even seen last summer. Every cold and flu or stomach virus has turned into I had the coronavirus. It’s crazy. The first known case in the US was in January 21.
My wife had the ChinaVirus two years ago. Lasted four weeks and it was brutal.
Nice try, but you idiots have had to continually revise your death predictions down! These models and Fauci have been consistently
wrong! Your death predictions for the US went from 2.2 million down to 60K! Gee, your projections were only off by 2,140,000 deaths! Pfft! People should no longer listen to you! I’ll guarentee we aren’t even going to get to the 60K death toll you nuts are now assuring us will happen!
You’ve caused enough destruction to our economy and way of life! Just go away, and take your hysteria and pearls with you!
We have had outbreaks of disease before. In all cases the number of infected has increased exponentially for some time. In all cases, this number has leveled off as fewer new cases have occurred. Eventually there comes a point where no new infections occur. This all occurs without any extreme lockdowns like the one we’ve done now.
Question: how do we know that the current decline in case growth is due to the lockdown and isn’t just the natural course of the outbreak? Sweden is experiencing a similar slowdown without any lockdown. Perhaps an advisory to practice social distancing and good hygiene without closing everything might have done just as well, or at least nearly so?
“”Because the virus has a long incubation period. Most who will develop symptoms do so in 5-7 days, but some have gone 14 days””
Does everyone know WHEN they were infected? Does everyone know WHERE they became infected? Why can’t we have some simple -from the beginning answers- instead of these flat out statements? Are the people infected given a “Here’s your sign (virus)” thus making the number of days of incubation a certainty?