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A lot of you are missing the big picture here. It isn't just the Deaths from the virus (which keep increasing FYI) but also lives that can't be saved because of overrun hospitals.

people that go into serious conditions that aren't the virus won't have a chance to be saved if you can't get them in the hospital bed.

Tell the person's family that got bit by a rattlesnake, fell off his roof, hit by a car, etc. they could have been saved if we had more hospital beds but we were too worried about the economy and our paychecks to follow advice and stay home.

MONEY OVER EVERYTHING amirite.

I think people get that, but right now the government and the media have panicked people to the point that the healthcare system is already overrun with people who are convinced they are getting ready to die because they have a sore throat.

And what people who say the things you are saying aren't thinking about is that if all it takes to cause the United States to panic and completely shut itself down is a moderately souped-up version of the flu, this sort of thing is going to start happening all the time.

If I'm a terrorist, I'm looking at this and thinking, "This is a whole lot easier than sending operatives into the country and having them learn to fly planes, then flying them into buildings to cause panic. All we have to do is watch China. Next time they have a juicy outbreak of something (which they will, because all of these outbreaks start there due to their unsanitary conditions in open air markets and their propensity to eat just about anything that can fog a mirror), we'll send five teams of five healthy people each, get good and infected, then head on over to the US and start visiting nursing homes. Cough on some food, wipe our noses and then smear it on some doorknobs, and then just sit back and watch while we recover in an American hospital, by then probably paid for by American taxpayers."

Who knows how many viruses like this start in China every year that we DON'T know about? It's not like you can trust the information that they tell you.

So this is about about a whole lot more than money, my friend. Amirite?

This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 10:05 pm