So we all stay home for 2 weeks -- then what happens? During that period they spread magic fairy dust and the virus disappears? We all come out after two weeks, the virus is still active someplace and starts again. Meanwhile, our economy is in shables, perhaps in a depression, people are starting to freak out and maybe not have food, perhaps civil unrest and riots break out and for what? If there is disease and sickness and some die, that is the cost of living in a global society and we need to start wrapping our head around this.
So far, in a nearly 4 month period, 10,000 people have died globally from COVID-19. Every day 153,000 people die globally -- every day. In 2009, 60.8 million in the US got sick from swine flu, 274,000 were hospitalized and there were 12,469 deaths. We did not call in the National Guard or shut down the country. In recent memory, we have had flu deaths reach 61,000 in one year in the US. People need to take precautions, but panic is not needed and we are suffering from the fact that most of our pols don'y have the brains or common sense of a goose.
