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It looks like you are just cherrypicking examples and wildly speculating. Brazil is early into this and seeing a high rate of transmission (R0 2.8). We really d

• htnsao 6y ago
  >It looks like you are just cherrypicking examples and wildly speculating. Hardly. Those are the two countries that have resisted shutdown of their economies and are showing negligible percentage of deaths. And the World Food Programme has stated that the coronovirus shutdown is putting ~265 million at risk of famine and "as our Executive Director told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, we could be looking at 300,000 people dying every day for three months" [0] >Brazil is early into this and seeing a high rate of transmission (R0 2.8). We really don't know enough in this country's case what the end result will be in terms of mortality. Yeah. Perhaps it will bump up from .005% of their population dying to .03%. Mostly the already sick and elderly. [0]:https://www.dw.com/en/world-food-program-act-now-to-prevent-coronavirus-famine/a-53219305 https://www.dw.com/en/world-food-program-act-now-to-prevent-...