Well I heard that explanation as an after the fact from the left. First it was we are all going to die, but now they credit government action for it not being 1.7 million. Seems like a convenient way to explain those hair on fire numbers they first spouted. But since you obviously not the left, perhaps there is some validity to that argument.
I guess I could be one of those idiots as I am crying in my beer at all the loss of liberty and economic vitality done in the name of beating what appears to be a nothing burger virus. I think the cure is for sure worse than the disease. Poverty is also a deadly virus, as we heard of at least one person committing suicide due to job losses.
I am sure there is going to be a lot of embarrassed people when this is all over and at most 500,000 die worldwide. Like SARS, Ebola, mad cow, Swine flu, a complete nothing burger to the west. But I am also sure they will nauseatingly claim it would have been worse if we didn’t act.
I believe they revised that 1.7 million death figure, upwards to 2.2 million.
The panic around it is because that’s a worst-case number, meaning no intervention by government and no effective precautionary public measures. Based on AI computers and reams of data from past epidemics in a very large population of 32 million.
I think we’ll be much better in a few weeks (at least the end of April) but there are also certain credible actors that are in full-on panic over the seriousness of the epidemic:
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