It's all great to defy projections, whatever that means, but we can look at numbers now and how they are increasing and know it's getting worse before it gets better.

The numbers by election time depends on how effectively social interaction and quarantining goes. Right now we are headed for the Italian model, they haven't got enough hospital facilities so they are choosing who gets treated and who gets left at home to die, the preference being for younger people with kids.

Trump set us back several weeks from where we should be, that will equate to thousands or tens of thousands of deaths.

Chuckle.... When the most populous Nation on earth went into complete quarantine during its largest and most important festival y'all didn't figure out there was something going on?

I find that absurd...

On the one hand you're arguing that it's just the flu an it's going to spread... On the other hand you feel that China should have recognized that this is a superflu and done more to warn y'all...

You are math challenged aren't you? Look at the deaths and how there are an increasing amount. They will increase to where there are more deaths every few days, not total, the number of deaths every day. By November we will be wishing it was only 200 a day, statistics and numbers do not lie. Take the number of new cases toay, and that is going to reflect the number of deaths three weeks from now as the severe cases lose their fight.

You will figure out what we don't want to accept, that as the cases goes up as we get testing, deaths will follow three weeks down the road, look at Italy's numbers and multiply them by ten.

It's all great to defy projections, whatever that means, but we can look at numbers now and how they are increasing and know it's getting worse before it gets better.

The numbers by election time depends on how effectively social interaction and quarantining goes. Right now we are headed for the Italian model, they haven't got enough hospital facilities so they are choosing who gets treated and who gets left at home to die, the preference being for younger people with kids.

Trump set us back several weeks from where we should be, that will equate to thousands or tens of thousands of deaths.

Trump, Trump, Trump. Trump did not cause the slow roll out of testing. It was slowed by un-needed regulations left over from the Obama administration. Regulations everywhere. If anything, Trump aided in things getting rolling as well as they should have. Again, the Obama "pandemic response team" failed to be prepared to respond, this despite increased funding of the CDC et al.

Just admit it wood, the Obama "pandemic response team" left us unprepared to "respond." That much is clear as day!!! They had ten years to think through the needs for preparedness. They could have stocked up on ventilators. They could have had multiple facilities ready to manufacture test kits. Y'all's panic, itself, has slowed things down.

With Trump trying to restrict incoming from China a full month before any democrat even mentioned it, what did Trump do to slow things down? Would it have gone faster had the president himself panicked and screamed the sky is falling? LOL! Y'all would have proclaimed him a reactionary and played it down yourselves.

I will be something with you woody. I'll bet the death toll in the US due to coronavirus this year will be less than the US death toll of H1N1 was in it's first year. In fact, I'll bet its nearly half; that's about 6000 or so.

It's all great to defy projections, whatever that means, but we can look at numbers now and how they are increasing and know it's getting worse before it gets better.

The numbers by election time depends on how effectively social interaction and quarantining goes. Right now we are headed for the Italian model, they haven't got enough hospital facilities so they are choosing who gets treated and who gets left at home to die, the preference being for younger people with kids.

Trump set us back several weeks from where we should be, that will equate to thousands or tens of thousands of deaths.