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

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White House officials have privately discussed the possibility of declaring a national state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, according to a report.

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Well something must be done, and it will, and regarding that, I'm not on neither end of the spectrum as far "freaking out" vs. "sticking our heads in the sand" goes...not yet. However this much is certain: This will be a defining moment in our nation's history, but it remains to be seen just how defining and in what capacity.

Boy, if this thread hasn't taken a turn for the worse with 2 extremes highjacking it...so speaking to that:

I think that people at both ends of the spectrum and how they're reacting to this all boils down to the fact that first-world citizens, en masse, are waking up to the daily reminder that the end of our mortality is an inescapable conclusion to life as we know it: We will all rot in the grave, and that's that.

Any man who says that this whole deal hasn't, at a minimum, taken a bit of the carefree spunkiness of life out of his sails- if even for a few brief moments throughout his day- is either a liar or a damned fool. It sucks to have to think about the end of it all, and on both sides many (if not most) of them are being smothered by the possibility of an event that they've rarely been faced with (or either have been too ignorant to care about).

Until a spouse gets killed in a car wreck or until a child dies from cancer, ignorance is bliss, and when millions have their ignorance challenged all at once things get heated, and, for a little while at least, progress takes a backseat because any problem other than first-world problems are unacceptable.

Whether it be mass extinction or a societal meltdown from tanking markets, both are the types that will get you killed, and however this plays out, neither will have anything to do with the people who'll actually and ultimately fix this thing: The folks in the middle who know that even though death is unavoidable, to not make a reasonable attempt at avoiding it (without screwing even more stuff up) is lunacy.

Ultimately, my take on it is this: We must do SOMETHING because we can, and because we CAN, we SHOULD. However, to believe that this will get better before it gets worse is, more than likely, a fantasy; because these types of historical events are the cogs and wheels of time itself, and as time goes on, just like with death, we cannot escape the storyline of how our short little lives were lived out. The story WILL BE written, and even though we cannot escape the inevitability of it, it's a damned fact that we have a say in how the ending is to go: In the ninth verse of the 16th chapter of a book of proverbs, it says, "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps."

How our story goes and the steps we took to get to, "the end" is not up to us; our job is to see to it that we stay the course, regardless of the bumps in the road.

The sooner that we sack-up and use the brains and bodies given to us and do something to get us back on course (and be reasonable so as to not veer even further off course), the better off our ending will be when it's all said and done.

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This will be a defining moment in our nation's history,

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Jesus.

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Italy hasn't been first world for centuries dude

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Never change, OT.

Was this meeting a huge gang bang? Or we talking family members too after they went home?

If they didn’t have that meeting, the person infected still goes to work. Infects his close coworkers

Who go home and infect their spouses. Who then infect their coworkers

You see where this goes? It is going to spread. You either go balls to the wall full quarantine, or let it run it’s course. Randomly canceling stuff but still going out and about does NOTHING

Here is the article

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Meanwhile other similarly situated countries have obtained better results with similar resources.

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If they have a similiar occupancy rate to us, that doesnt fare well for your assertion that we are better prepared. It just means that we have more beds per capita also occupy them more per capita if the occupancy is identical.

Social distancing of random events while people still go to offfice buildings filled with 10,000+ people does nothing

That’s why I can’t support this from a logical point. I don’t want a full quarantine, but at least logically I can support that

Italians don't smoke more than Americans. Italy has about the same rate with U.S.A having about half a percent higher. Mortality rate directly related to smoking is 75 deaths per 100k in USA and 55 in Italy

So... Stop making up shite.

Took me longer to type this out than it did to find the facts.

You don’t have around 1k people per floor. At least not a normal building. The pentagon has a huge footprint and it’s at 4K at capacity.