re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

For those saying "this could have been stopped"

what EXACTLY DID YOU WANT state and federal govt to do to stop it?

Complete travel bans from all nations?

mass quarantines?

what did you want?

This thing is breaking out everywhere.

Insane (INSANE) to think any nation could have prevented it from getting onto their soil.

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BREAKING: Italy reports 1,492 new cases of coronavirus and 133 new deaths, raising total to 7,375 cases and 366 dead

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Thanks CDC and FedGov... dropped the ball and no one to blame but yourself.

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There was no way to contain this thing, people walking around asymptomatic and spreading it for 14 days....shite, even attempting to do it in a society that allows freedom of travel would be almost impossible.

Da fuq?? Close the border and all incoming travel and he’s called a racist . Leave it open and it’s all his fault. fricking people are stupid !

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For those saying "this could have been stopped"

what EXACTLY DID YOU WANT state and federal govt to do to stop it?

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I don’t think anyone with a brain thinks it can or could have been stopped, but slowed and mitigated yes.

I posted my personal story early in here about travels through Asia and upon returning late Jan, didn’t even get a second look when returning to SFO.

Hell, they still aren’t even screening people coming in from Italy.

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Sitting at about 5% right now. But it's just the flu.

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Are you this dense? Try reading how sick you have to be in Louisiana to even get a test. We are not testing for all of the mild cases out there. The mortality rate is much less than 5 percent.

I'm talking about Italy. Italy is testing a ton of people and quarantining a huge part of their country. They're not doing the "let's keep our confirmed case #s low to prevent panic"

Do I think it's truly going to finish at 5%? No. But, that is an absurdly high #.

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For those saying "this could have been stopped"

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Stop it all together? Of course not.

But with proactive tracing they could have slowed the burn. Watched/isolated those in contact with positive cases, and added weeks if not months to the growth phase of the infection.

Remember, the goal of the game is not to let it grow so fast that hospitals get buried dealing with cases. That’s the difference between nothing burger and possibility of 1 million+ dead. And what some states are doing now they have the test: throwing everyone in contact with identified cases into quarantine.

What the CDC actually did at the start?

“Hey I have a bunch of abornally sick people here and they aren’t testing positive for flu. We need to test for CoV.”

CDC: “Nah, they weren’t in China. They good.”

For weeks

Italian nCFR now 5%. Corrected CFR maybe over 7%? I know it's mostly "old people" but that is some crazy shite.

“With 6,767 confirmed cases as of late Friday, South Korea has more coronavirus patients than any country besides China. That high number may in part be a function of the country’s sweeping testing program that involved tens of thousands of people. When balanced against the country’s 44 deaths, the case-fatality ratio is less than 0.7%.”