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Wait!  You've been minimizing this for weeks, indeed on 2020-03-17 8:15 AM you said, "the OVERWHELMING majority of people won't even get sick enough to stay home from school." Now people are putting themselves in harms way?  Never mind.  See?  This is why I rarely post in internet forums.  You express your opinion in a comment and someone with a different opinion gets butthurt, then the discussion spirals down into a shouting match and then it gets personal.  Don't worry though, I won't lose any sleep knowing you've lost respect for me.

From where I sit.....this is a media hype....and it shouldn't be....it doesn't even need to be.  It's craziness. This is a bad bug.....but WTF is going on here???

On another board, a guy posted a link from the NY Times that said there would be 650,000 cases in the U.S. in 2 months.  Well OK, that's a big scary number.

So let's do the math..........FROM THE NY TIMES.....BOLDED

Here's what stood out to me....."could be 650,000 cases in the next 2 months".

Let's say that the worst case scenario is 3.5% fatalities, which should make the doomsday folks happy here, it's actually about 1.2% now. So let's say 3.5%....that's 22,750 deaths. I know it's a big number. But, in 2018 we had rougly 80,000 flu deaths...which at the 3.5% rate would be roughly 2,300,000 covid cases....or nearly 4 times what the NY Times just reported.

This is all I ask.....how about a little damn context from the media instead of all the hype? What is the point? Most people can't remember last year, much less 2018.....but we have been here before....and it was OK. We didn't scrap our way of life for it. What is going on here?

So.....WHAT IS GOING ON???????????

Absolutely, my bad.  I've heard it twice since I posted that.

Still, I'm happy to see the low death rate holding, and we know there are many more undocumented cases, although we have no idea how many...but the rate is still much lower than what we can measure.  We'll see what it looks like at the end of this week.  The folks in the middle of the country are paying attention and not moving about much.  I'm not too sure what will happen when the spring breakers come home to their communities.

I think this is a bad bug.....but I still have no idea why we crashed the economy.  Seems to me we could have "sheltered in place" the members of our society who are say,  60 and older, and let the youngsters keep things rolling.  But here we are and it is what it is.  I'll make so much money during this deal it'll make me forget how angry I was, and still am, at the media fueled reaction to this virus.

I have to admit though......I am not disappointed that the left has turned it political.....they have never let me down!!

A friend of mine is an ER nurse in Denver. Reports that a large portion of their patients are in their 30s, 40s, 50s, one college aged kid. Many/most with no other health issues, but in ICU with vents or oxygen. So quarantining those 60+ is not the solution.

I'm starting to hear firsthand accounts from friends/acquaintances who have COVID, since it seems to have been spreading in CO for a while. Most are in their 40s and healthy, just like me, and they are absolutely miserable with it. From my small sampling of people, seems like the guys are harder hit. It sounds absolutely awful, whether you end up in the hospital or not. 

Stay safe out there folks!