[21twelve]

“They did say one thing else, they asked how many days our kids had left in school (17 left) and they did some mental calculations and told us they thought the kids might make it to the end of the year without having to be pulled out.”

I had to use my calculator! On March 25th their were 10 confirmed cases in the U.S. On April 1 their were 141 cases. It was about doubling every day. Exponential growth is what a virus does in the early stages.

If it continues at this rate, and I imagine it will, there will be over 2 million cases in two more weeks.

[cgbg]

It also looks like it takes two weeks of more for some to die from pneumonia complications to this flu, so by the time any significant number of deaths would be reported someone in every city, town and probably village would have the flu.

We will get through this OK, but a lot of folks on FR are not seeing the "big picture" here.