[Mom MD]

And an even more basic question. Can we halt or delay it? Or are we just kidding ourselves at great cost

[ProtectOurFreedom]

None of these things can really be halted solely with quarantine and isolation, right? We can obviously delay it, but the cost is enormous. The cost may be so high we lose our liberty.

You asked "are we just kidding ourselves at great cost?" I just watched the videos on #filmyourhospital (#9 above by RBW in PA). Citizen journalists are finding no lines on the streets or in waiting rooms or in admissions in hospitals in NYC, Chicago, LA and Honolulu.

In 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic...Dr John Ioannidis Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy and of Biomedical Data Science, at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. He is director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). He wrote a couple weeks ago...

If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.

So maybe previous years with "bad flu season" were actually viruses like this going through the populace?

What do YOU think?