Five thousand.
Wait a second. In China.
Please tell me again, why am I taking any of this seriously?
Why would you take any numbers from the Chinese at face value? Nobody else in the world is. Everyone knows they’ve been lying to all of us from the start. They didn’t warn anyone how serious this was and Italy got slammed with no warning as a result.
It’s being taken seriously because it’s already killed over 165,000 American citizens in just a few months and it’s nowhere near over. Without a vaccine (which President Trump has assured us is coming very soon), we could eventually see that number climb over 500,000 up to possibly 850,000 or so.