@littllemel If you actually look at the cdc's data, you'll see the most common cause of death written alongside Covid-19 on death certificates is respiratory failure, which isn't another "serious illness," but rather a symptom of covid
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews We also botched the possibily to effectively contain it by not having working, easily available testing kits and a pandemic response team
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews It is not impossible to shut down the country. Italy is doing it right now. Parts of china did it. Parts of South Korea did it. Shutting down the country is the only effective way to contain the virus. Also, it's not like our government is really listening to scientists rn
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews But u need to realize that the country shutting down is almost inevitable, and the sooner we do it, the sooner we will be able to contain and stop the spread of the virus. Coronavirus is different from previous pandemics, because people can be asymptomatic and contagious
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews Nobody is pretending they acted proactively. They let the number of cases grow exponentially to around 20000 before they were able to effectively mitigate its spread, which they did by quarantining everyone. It's better if we do it sooner, so we don't reach 80000 cases
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews Yeah, places like china, which basically shut down parts of the country, and places like South Korea, which was able to contain the virus to a small area of the country and provide the public with a couple hundred thousand free of charge testing kits. The US is unprepared
@ZachKnerr @Cloze_FCPS @FCPSSupt@fcpsnews Do u know what exponential growth is? At this rate, the number of cases in the us is increasing tenfold every week