Total in the CR up to 91 now. Number of cases more than doubled in 2 days.
Apparently, the Czech government actually has a specific pandemic plan which is used to respond to an influenza pandemic. The projection is that if it spreads like the flu, 30% of the population will be infected within 9 to 15 weeks.
Obviously, it’ll spread faster than your conventional flu and likely affect more than half of the population. Just hope by the time I probably get it that some better treatment methods are developed for it.
Based on how it has spread in Europe, there’s no way that only 1,000 people in America have it. It has to be way more.
It’s incredible to see the reactions to this on social media break down by party affiliation. My Republican acquaintances are largely still in the “MSM hysteria, chill out you idiots” camp. Even one Doctor I know, who is aggressively Republican, is doing the flu whataboutism.
Right. Of course that’s not going to work. But if three years has taught us anything it’s that trump is above all a fucking idiot who doesn’t think more than one move ahead. He’s just gotten lucky so far and run like a god. Now his luck ran out to our detriment.
Yeah I’ve mostly left market stuff out of this thread, but today it seemed relevant to the discussion over Trump’s response to coronavirus to add the context. I still plan to mostly leave it out of here and not get in depth in here about it, but I do think that it’s not just a one way street. It’s not just coronavirus spreads → market falls. It’s also market falls → impacts Trump’s response.
