How can a disease with a 1% mortality rate shut down the U.S? Answered by Franklin Veaux:

[Warpy]

82. One county here in NM has been as high as 7.5% dead

Sure, some of them were cared for at home until it was too late to do anything, but that's still high. That's the kind of rate we're going to see in countries that don't have health care infrastructure.

This disease, if it's killing or injuring 20% of the people in this country, will pretty much destroy what's left of the economy. In addition, they're finding permanent injury to body systems in people who had mild cases, the 80% who are supposed to get through this without a problem. Um, problem. There could be subtle impairment in even more that will affect productivity severely. This disease is looking a lot more dangerous than it did 6 months ago.

Worse, thanks to Dumdum's total abdication of duty (he couldn't even bring himself to delegate anything), the USA is going to be the world's laboratory for the various forms this disease can take.

Now they want the country's children exposed.

I won't be here to see the story of this wretched time told in history books. I can well imagine some of what will be in it. I do know that we will be living in a very different country two or so years from now.