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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe danger is that this is only the beginning of the pandemic.
When it gets worse, it could get exponentially worse.
It is a logical conclusion that there are more cases than are being reported. Some people do not or cannot go to a doctor.
We hope that we are near the end of this epidemic but, we may only be at the beginning.
We should hope for the best but we should prepare for the worst.
Bullshit and fake news will be of little help to us.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)but they are a totalarian regime who can order 700 million to stay home or face being shot. Not so likely in the US where this will run wild and free for months and months
before suitable measures would be in place way toooooooooooooooo late
uponit7771
(91,355 posts)... quarantine 750 million people in their last outbreak.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Response to kentuck (Original post)
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DanTex
(20,709 posts)And not from fearmongers or doomsday nuts, but from scientists.
-Harvard Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch
https://www.mediaite.com/news/harvard-professor-sounds-alarm-on-likely-coronavirus-pandemic-40-to-70-of-world-could-be-infected-this-year/
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)that all is good and COVID-19 is now contained. This thing is just beginning to blossom here in the U.S. The current death numbers are the tip of what we might expect by the time CV has retreated.
Kellyanne, these aren't the final numbers; these are the beginning numbers. Fool.