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No, you have arrived at the answer.

The counts are wrong by orders of magnitude.

Now follow through with what that means.

I keep seeing that "next couple of weeks" phenomenon. At what point can we be assured that we crossed those ever-critical couple of weeks? It keeps pushing out.

I am thinking that Corona is killing the same people who would have died from regular flu for the most part, i.e. it's not in addition to normal deaths. I understand that this is a minority opinion, but data may bear it out eventually.

PhD Mathematics/Computer Science

Saying that only Republicans do this is ridiculous. The Democrats are masters of identity politics, which was totally unproductive in all aspects by design. Handouts and freebies to buy votes and appeal to the most basest desires while ignoring all personal responsibility. Using mass illegal immigration to influence elections. Using outright voting fraud to influence elections. All in a total effort to cement power--it's all about the power, not what they will do with it once they have it. Which, news flash, isn't going to be good for the productive citizens of the US.

It is not an airborne infection.

Well, I am in the Midwest and there is hardly anything going on here, so yeah, wearing a mask would be kind of out of place. Anyways, I basically stay away from people anyhow.

Our hospitals here are all losing money waiting for a crowd that may never arrive. Kids are silly miserable. We're losing our way of life and our nation to mass hysteria and we need to be strong instead.

All correct. Also, Snowflakes think the country can run all shut down, but not if you want food on your table. We have to get back going, take our hits, and survive. The alternative is worse.

I don't know why you are so obsessed with testing? In the US, if you have a medical problem, you go to the doctor. The doctor may order tests. If you are not sick, or the doctor doesn't think you need certain tests, they don't order the tests.

It was never possible to ramp up test kits for 350M people and it's not going to help anyways. You test negative one day, then...what? You can still catch the virus! It's a false sense of security.

Japan is handling the crisis the best of any nation so far--calmly, without idiots posting on web forums about their non-expertise and not giving in to who can yell the loudest.

There is a large contingent of itinerant fools who travel the world endlessly in search of identity yet never locate it.

The US is doing just fine and there is no need for further authoritarian measures right now. We'll do what me must when we must.

"Health professionals" are just another interest group filled with leftist fools, total Dunning Kruger effect going in most quarters there. In my Biostats courses at UNC I ran into the same personality type over and over and over again. I get that they're well-intentioned, but they're too proud to know what they don't know.

We'll get through this, regardless. Plenty of brilliant minds coming to the fore right now.

Look, the US and everywhere is more interested in financializing everything, leveraging and doing all kinds of other stupid shit in order to make money without actually producing anything. So this is what you get.

Want strong civil defense? Look at Switzerland.

And that, most of all, is what needs to stop.

Not having to pay for the care of some amount of elderly and some amount of people who were in bad health for whatever reason is sadly a positive outcome of this whole mess.

The savings to pension plans alone...

Because we're all about to be broke and there won't be any free cash to "go on vacation."

Last time, there was a big search for bag holders. Guess who the bag holders were?

You and me and Fed.gov. It fucking sucks.

This is acceptable as long as the billionaires all take big haircuts this time. In 2008, they paid themselves huge bonuses while Main St. got evicted. Not happening this time!

Pitchforks, torches, and nooses if necessary.