re: It feels like the nation is starting to panic

Projection. The post.

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many people have it and aren’t affected at all. Many people will never be tested because they won’t seek medical care, and even more still have probably already recovered because their symptoms were so mild it didn’t warrant a trip to the doctor in their minds.

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This is part of the reason they want people to stay in. They don’t want people to unknowingly transfer the virus. They estimate 80% of cases will have mild symptoms, or none at all. We’ve kind of been conditioned to think that if you get this, you’re going to end up in the hospital, when that’s really not the case. So it would be easy to think, “hey since I’m not struggling to breathe, I must not have the virus” and they’ll go about their daily life spreading it to others they come in contact with. What does nothing to one person, could cause hospitalization and / or death to others. If unchecked it would lead to millions of infections and 1-3 % of those will die. It would bog down the healthcare system indefinitely, and it wouldn’t stop until they find a vaccine or it dies off with weather.

ETA: the incubation period is like 5.7 days. During that time the person doesn’t have any symptoms, but they are still contagious.

Death rates are going to be a severely lagging indicator, as the testing rates go up.

Why? The average infection time to death is about 20 days-- so the numbers of dead you see now, are an indicator of infections 20 days ago, on average.

Yes, as testing expands, you'll see a temporary gap open as we get a better idea of the actual rate of infections-- this is when you'll see the mortality rate go down; more cases identified earlier in the window of infection. The deaths come later, though.

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I saw a dumbass buy 4 dozen and a half packs of eggs. Food that has a short shelf life and can't be consumed within a 2 week expiration date.

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You know, 4 dozen eggs aren't very many, for a family. We use almost a dozen every day, and eggs last quite a while in the fridge. I've used them that were over a month old before, they were fine, and have been told that they can last months, refrigerated.
The freshness dates on some items, is merely a mechanism to make you buy more often.

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I disagree.

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The fatality rate is plummeting harder than the stock market yet states are still considering mandatory quarantines

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so stop buying 20 dozen eggs woman.

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The person I was replying to, seemed to think that 4 dozen eggs was a lot. That's just weekly groceries, for a family who cooks meals.

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As the government continues to tighten its grip on America

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Dafuq are your talking about?

Are your writhing a novel, because how most fictional stories start off.

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A lot of people showing up in the ER panicking

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And calling... GOD they are calling. In addition I am in a freestanding ER. They are coming to us with things that absolutely should go to the full hospital ER. All for fear of Covid.

30 weeks pregnant with abdominal pain and bleeding! Uh uh. We don't do that. Nobody is doing fetal monitoring here.

Three Stooge EMS "no-loading" people who obviously need transport because they don't want to take them to the dirty hospital. Just come to our little M*A*S*H unit instead.

The Democratic media continue to celebrate every American death and every drop in the stock market. This is a wet dream come true for the major networks and their TDS Stricken overseers.

I am panicked over the massive overreaction of the government.

This is bullshite.