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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?

by readme 7y ago

scrooched_moose 7y ago
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-americans-than-some-wars.html 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.
- Kye 7y ago
  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 The dashboards I checked were out of date, but the latest is 75k new cases on the 30th.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.
  - oxide 7y ago
    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.
soperj 7y ago
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.
Kye 7y ago
The curve is steep and moving steadily up. We're still weeks out from seeing if the very late extreme measures were enough.
kemonocode 7y ago
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.
addison-lee 7y ago
5k dying a day and it is only getting worse. Not sure what point you were trying to make?

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?

by readme 7y ago

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?

scrooched_moose 7y ago

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-americans-than-some-wars.html 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.

Kye 7y ago
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.
- oxide 7y ago
  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.

soperj 7y ago

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.

Kye 7y ago

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

kemonocode 7y ago

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.

addison-lee 7y ago

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