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KY_EnviroGuy

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21. To a rational person, our being bigger should make it easier to contain....

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #14)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 03:55 AM

Mar 2020

as apposed to societies where many live in tight quarters like in China. I fear our insistence on total freedom and mobility ingrained in us for so long is now to our detriment during this disaster.

Spank my hand, there I go being rational again.......

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Tomorrow, I predict we will pass Italy ... [View all] aggiesal Mar 2020 OP

I'm not sure those numbers from China are anywhere close to accurate. LonePirate Mar 2020 #1

We are currently at 1.5% ... aggiesal Mar 2020 #3

Those are only deaths associated with the virus... cynatnite Mar 2020 #9

After re-reading your post ... aggiesal Mar 2020 #5

I don't think we have reached 1% of our final case or death totals. We're nowhere close to peaking. LonePirate Mar 2020 #8

Considering the death rate in China is at 4% by the stats defacto7 Mar 2020 #29

The poster seems to be implying 6-7 million ill in the USA, Blue_true Mar 2020 #10

Ok, but how do our populations compare? Tumbulu Mar 2020 #2

Ok, so compare with China ... aggiesal Mar 2020 #4

Yikes. And China has more like 4x USA population. nt greyl Mar 2020 #11

China aggressively locked down 65 million people and literally Blue_true Mar 2020 #13

But in general community is more important there Tumbulu Mar 2020 #16

Reports are claiming a national sense of following the rules in South Korea... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #20

We're 5 times bigger then italy jimfields33 Mar 2020 #6

Italy isolated it's epicenter in the North within a month. Blue_true Mar 2020 #14

To a rational person, our being bigger should make it easier to contain.... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #21

Where is the Press? Blue_true Mar 2020 #7

We'll pass them both tomorrow. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #12

My biggest concern is the virus is now in every part of the USA. Blue_true Mar 2020 #15

I wish I hadn't been right. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #18

Has your daughter visited a Doctor or hospital? Blue_true Mar 2020 #23

She's done a virtual screening Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #30

Fired the Pandemic Response Team and Fired the CDC in China ... jus damn. Then people call uponit7771 Mar 2020 #19

Trump sees the world through the prism of money. Blue_true Mar 2020 #24

My husband is the numbers guy in our household Bettie Mar 2020 #25

COVID-45. roamer65 Mar 2020 #17

Trump's advisors will beg him not to brag about being #1 Skittles Mar 2020 #22

We are Mississippi dam it. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #26

We just did. 75K (nt) Recursion Mar 2020 #27

We're there spinbaby Mar 2020 #28

We'll pass China later today. n/t aggiesal Mar 2020 #31

Italy just pulled ahead again spinbaby Mar 2020 #32

We're #1 .. aggiesal Mar 2020 #33