The Great Coronavirus War Is Upon Us

Townhall.com ^ | March 12, 2020 | Victor, Davis Hanson

[Kaslin]

Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy -- which, of course, is exactly what it is.

But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is to hurt, maim or kill as many of us as it can.

COVID-19 may not have jets, tanks or nukes, like our past enemies. But its arsenal, numbers, cunning and willpower are said to be formidable.

To win its war against Americans, COVID-19 must infect and sicken lots of Americans each day. If it cannot infect enough victims to multiply and sustain a hungry army of viruses, COVID-19 will soon sputter and die. It will get trapped in just a few hosts among an otherwise victorious and healthy nation of about 330 million.

Nature has given COVID-19 some weapons that its defeated cousins -- the H1N1 swine flu and the MERS and SARS viruses -- lacked.

It is more clever by being less lethal -- and a little tougher in its ability to live outside a host. Viral resiliency ensures that it rarely turns into a suicide bomber by dying with a terminally sick host, and that it does not perish so quickly when orphaned in the air and on surfaces.

The coronavirus has allies. It infiltrates our defenses by using our own weapons against us -- our dirty hands, the habitual touching of the face, and indiscreet sneezing and coughing.

Poor personal and public hygiene gives the virus some sustenance and camouflage. To win -- defined as sickening or killing thousands of us -- COVID-19 counts on our laxity. It hates careful individuals who block its invasion into the eyes, nose and mouth.

[StAnDeliver]

So your chart is looking up the mouse butt, so what? This thing is mostly over here by Tax Day. And with the DOW then at 1000, sell gold at 20K/oz and buy blue chips, not entirely unlike after 9/11.

[StAnDeliver]

People that look to a virus to politicize it against Trump ...

Or to prosecute their version of the 'way things ought to be harrumph' for the umpteenth time ...

Are going to be sorely disappointed in *checks the mouse* about a month.

Because it's a f------g virus.

[Tunehead54]

Try this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

At bottom you can select different country reported rates with very good graphs/numbers.

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[Elsie]

No! That is the point of exponential increases.

I tend to disagree.

I feel the RATE/percentage of change is what is relevant. 10,000 victims in China vs 10,000 victims in Tonga are NOT the same.

[Elsie]

We do agree on important stuff!

[Elsie]

I just got home from Wallyworld; where it looks like folks are stocking up for a week long blizzard!!

[Jane Long]

Lol....it’s gonna be longer than a week! Go back to WW!

[Elsie]

I think it’s called Triage.

[Elsie]

We all gonna die some day; at some age.

Have y’all made plans for when the eventuality DOES finally occur?

[Elsie]

Warm weather for most of us is only weeks away.

Australia, South America and South Africa thank you for the reminder.

[Elsie]

Time to buy up funeral home, casket, backhoe, and escort service stocks.

[null and void]

I was planning on being parted out, but I don’t know if that’s still an option.

[Elsie]

Now where is the chart for the absolute numbers?

[null and void]

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[null and void]

IF you can get it to load...

[Elsie]

(We only get enough stuff to fill ONE cart each trip)

[Elsie]

Me; too; but I think most of my parts are pretty much used up by now.

[null and void]

Broken down by age group? No Idea. Hasn’t come over my transom.

[null and void]

I don’t even still have all of mine...

[AndyJackson]

I feel the RATE/percentage of change is what is relevant.

We are saying the same thing. If the rate of exponentiation is the same for two countries, with a slight adjustment in time the eventual impact is going to be the same.