Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Unless they take a lengthy wait and see approach. Or they decide that ending the lockdowns will start it back up again and there needs to be a three month safty net.

What I doubt happening any time soon is them admitting that the virus only affects a tiny portion of the population. Maybe as little as 1% and all other cases are asymptomatic to nearly asymptomatic, if that is the case.

For one thing it would mean bad orange man was right about them overreacting. And we sure as **** can't let that happen.

With alternating of heavy lockdowns and complete releases, you're likely to get the "best" form both sides - severe economic depression AND heavy impact of the disease.

323 Covid19 caused deaths so far in Canada. There are provinces that have 0 deaths related to it.

16,653 confirmed cases.
Ontario has 4,347 confirmed cases and 132 deaths.
The fact is that confirmed cases are only possible with tests --
and tests since this started, have been given almost solely to the most severe presentation of symptoms.

So the actual number will total to much more.

The ones who don’t get tested are most probably the less severe cases—where the likelihood of deaths is even less than among people in serious-enough condition to be tested.

Obviously, there are many non-tested folks out there. Only about 1 in 170 people have been tested in the United States. So, there are probably many mild and asymptomatic cases all over the place...some of whom have already recovered.

But....the rate of positive tests is 20% nationwide, these results skewed heavily towards certain hotspots. Most states have 15% or less positive results.

In Canada, about 1 in 100 have been tested. The rate of positive tests is between 5 and 6%. The virus hasn’t penetrated Canada as much as it’s invaded the US.

Source: Worldometer

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Yes. I mean the difference between cases to deaths is even greater in reality....

How is NY doing? Any news Mrs Kraftie brings home?
We don't have much deaths here but our healthcare system is collapsing anyway due to panic and poor organisation.

New York’s deaths per day has stabilized. But still way too many. The rate of new cases has gone down, possibly due to a decline in testing.

Climate activist of course. With dreams of global socialism.

Provided tens of millions weren't already infected with no impact.

In terms of people’s health, we probably need more “global socialism.”

I don’t believe, overall, in socialism as a political system.

Lenin and Mao smile from Hell.

The COVID19 cases are separated from others in my wife’s
nursing home. There are more deaths than usual. There doesn’t seem to be panic and overcrowding there, though.

But many do. And they are looking at this as a golden opportunity.

Probably tens of millions have been already infected with no impact.
And hundreds of thousands have been already infected with some impact that will become visible in 2-3 weeks.

In other words an overall low impact run of the mill virus.