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At the time you wrote this comment, approximately 45k people have died as a result of the coronavirus worldwide.

Glass is half empty for you then, right?

5k dying a day and it is only getting worse. Not sure what point you were trying to make?

Many more will die as indirect consequences from the pandemic. When health services are overloaded, chronic conditions get deprioritized, and emergencies are slower to handle. Not to mention all the jobs that simply stop existing or are endangered. I'm very afraid for my elderly relatives who in many cases live alone and can't afford to get sick or stop working.

The curve is steep and moving steadily up. We're still weeks out from seeing if the very late extreme measures were enough.

And the Trump administration's estimates from today are 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the US alone:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-could-kill-more-...

Several million worldwide seems very possible. People downplaying this for too long is a large part of why it's gotten so bad already.

Why worry? There's only 15 cases in the US. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my state. Why worry? There's only 15 cases in my county.

Who knows what it will look like in 2 weeks.

This is correct. There were 1.9k new cases on the first of March. The dashboards I checked were out of date, but the latest is 75k new cases on the 30th. The curve ramped up around the 12th. And that's only people who were able to get a test. We have no idea how big this thing is.

Anyone would recognize that kind of growth as a breakout success if it were users on an app, but somehow they don't recognize the pattern with a disease.

I thought it would hit people how serious it was when sports stopped, movies stopped releasing, kids couldnt go to schools and people started scalping toilet paper.

45k was 21k a week ago, and under 10k a week before that. Today it'll be ~+5k more. That number is increasing every day.

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