re: US Chinese Virus Tracker - 466,299 Cases, 16,686 Deaths, 26,104 Recovered (4/10/2020)

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Don't start acting rational now. You've been pimping this as a catastrophe. I'm finally on board. Don't puss out on me. This is the beginning of the end. The world as we know it will be over in 5 months. It was a good run. It had to happen eventually. C'est la vie.

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Oh, this is a catastrophe in ways not even yet imagined on this board. India has banned the export of a couple of dozen medications. Do you think China is making any in substantial numbers right now? Where do you think the overwhelming majority of our medications come from? Magic globalization faries? By the time this is over, more people may die from medication shortages than from coronavirus.

I expect the mortality rate to go down from the (overstated) 5% we see here right now to the ~ 2%-3% rate that other countries have observed. But even if only a third of the country gets it, that's 2.33 million dead. Think we're going to institute the sort of societal measures here to make the number of infected plateau like it has in China?

I guess that's the new normal now, try and weaponize a pandemic for political gain if you're a democrat and try and ignore it because it might adversely affect your 401k if you're a republican.