Corona Deaths in the US = 1.
I have been saying since the start: This is not going to kill you. It probably won’t make you very sick.
But it will impact you. Clearly, supply chain disruption is one thing. The second is the cultural impact due to behavior changes.
What is concerning are the people who do not understand they are not going to die. Equally concerning are those making comparisons of a flu throughout a six mo th timeframe to a new, unknown virus that has been on our shores for two weeks.
What is equally concerning is the complete dismissal of the actions taken by other countries. Actions that are significant and severe.
Finally, I am amused by the people dismissing the Chinese numbers. When you ask if the Chinese are lying, the answer is almost universally “Yes.” But when you ask if they are over reporting or under reporting...the answer is “under reporting.”
So many feel the Chinese are under reporting—yet they dismiss this as “no worse” than the flu.
Do you see the problem with that?
The best answer, in my opinion, is to establish your own expectations and prepare accordingly. Most people’s expectations are based on nothing other than their “feelings.” That is not a real good plan.
“Equally concerning are those making comparisons of a flu throughout a six mo th timeframe to a new, unknown virus that has been on our shores for two weeks.”
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I chalk it up to a lack of very basic math education - “they’s only x amount of people with it in the US! It’s fake, a hoax, crisis actors!!’ . without stopping to think that in every country where it’s raging there were only x amount of patients in the first few weeks, including Wuhan.