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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSerious Question: How many dead due to COVID-19 before we should be concerned...
half the deaths of the regular flu? Not until it exceeds flu deaths?
A few dead people is okay, as long as it not too many.....too many is when the pig's poll numbers take a hit?
If that is the measure, then is that too late and it will be raging across the country.
Is there a tipping point besides a political one.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)I just don't want to be there when it happens.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I tried it briefly a while back, and it was as easy as taking a nap.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)What a flippant thing to say about the 60+ people infected with Covid-19 in the US, and thousands across the globe, who are now on ventilators fighting for their lives! You may have enjoyed your "brief try" at dying, but these people are desperately trying to live.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)tinrobot
(10,916 posts)We need to be concerned now. The more precautions we take now, the fewer deaths will happen. Period.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)We're not even testing every person who shows up at a hospital with pneumonia. We don't have enough test kits to do so. Who knows how many have already died from Covid-19 in the US?
Our President spent today at a political rally calling Covid-19 a "hoax." Our head of state is not dealing with reality. There is a reason the financial markets are cratering.
captain queeg
(10,242 posts)The thing is right now there are too many unknowns. But at this rate, if it were a linear progression which it is not, world wide infections will be over a quarter million by the end of March. Thats probably pretty conservative. If the death rate is around 3% that would be close to 7,000 dead. But all these numbers are just guesses based on limited knowledge and you can bet any deaths outside the US wont matter in the slightest to the rethugs.
If all those deaths were in the US, or worse, the stock market drops another 10%, they might decide maybe we should take some serious action. Not just rate cuts.
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)... HOW to take any serious action, no matter what the prompts might be. They are fundamentally incompetent, and they wont listen to the people who are competent. I dont know whether this will get really bad. But I am 100% certain it will be worse than it had to be because of them.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)50 million deaths from 500 million infected.
chowder66
(9,080 posts)That is when states will have to start making quick and hard decisions on what to do in and around each community.
bern2020
(23 posts)that flu kills tens of thousands every year so that's a lot of dead until people wake up
ck4829
(35,091 posts)If you're not a "Good American", then you can be concerned any time you choose.