Hey marcag

I get all that, and have been looking at the same numbers.  I was asking which Province/City is your worst right now?

Thanks. 

We were having a discussion about the virus in other countries yesterday and we were split on whether Quebec, Ontario, or BC likely had the most. 

My city is actually doing a good job staying home.....but then last Sunday, a beautiful day, the local county parks were absolutely packed.  I suppose people, just like my family, needed some new scenery for exercise.  Now we've got all the parks closed.  LOL

I still don't know anybody who knows anybody who knows anybody with the virus.....and that includes my brother on Long Island.\

I still think it's way over-hyped.....but maybe that was needed, I don't know.  I watch the news and it appears New York is melting down from the coverage we see.  Then you do that math and realize 99.3% of New Yorkers DO NOT have the virus and they are getting close to a peak.

Lot's of money to be made right now for security work.....so there's that for my family.

I have quite a few acquaintances who have/had it, as well as a very good friend who is waiting on her test results. Most in their 40s. A friend of mine had both her dad and brother in the ICU last week. Brother just had oxygen and came home. Dad was on a vent. Is still in ICU but off the vent now, which is great. My good friend was sick as a dog for a month after a trip to Seattle at the beginning of March - fever, cough, GI distress, aches, you name it. Her family all got it, but more mild - fevers and maybe a cough or feeling bad for a few days. Another friend got it bad, double pneumonia, but didn't have to go into the hospital. Her husband and kids just had bad coughs. 

In everyone I know, seems like one person in the family gets it super bad and is miserable, and the rest of the family get mild symptoms or none. It's weird how it randomly hits some people worse than others. In Colorado, most folks in their 40s are healthy and active, but I'm hearing of a lot of friends of friends who have had to visit the hospital with this due to the pneumonia. 

Do they all catch it in the same place? 

I'm serious....I can't find a single person who knows anyone....and I talk to people all day long and ask them.

Good friend lives in my mountain town and caught it traveling in Seattle.

Everyone else lives in Denver metro area, where there's a decent amount of community spread. I don't even know that any of them know exactly where they caught it.

A couple of weeks ago, I didn't know anyone either (thought I suspected my friend who was sick after Seattle might have it). Didn't take long for it to blow up here to the point that I know people. 

I get that.....but we are responding and helping on ambulance runs, family disturbances, etc.  It's not like I'm hiding.  I'm quite sure I've been around plenty of people who have it.....but I don't know any of them, and I don't know anybody who knows anybody.  It's really not a large segment of the population.  There are just over 800 cases in the St. Louis area....there are 3 million people here....so 99.97% don't have it.  It's not like there's someone on every block who is sick.

Do the math for Colorado.  You have 5.6 millions people out there and 3600+/- cases.....99.93% are not sick.

Anyway, be careful. 

We are working 1 week on and 1 week off so someone else can deal with this madness for me next week.  I'm going fishing.

At this point, they're only really testing folks who are sick enough to need hospital care here. So doctors are estimating we've probably got 10x that number of cases. Still, I totally agree - even 10x 3300 = 33,000 out of 5.6 million seems like a tiny percentage! 

And yet... My town has 21 cases, with a population of about 9,000. If you assume the authorities are right and that means there are really ~200 cases out there, then that's 2% of the population. Once 2 of every 100 people are sick, you probably know someone.