Please Remove Housing Timers During the Covid-19 Epidemic

[Iscah]

This article has put a finger on something:

Most importantly, there needs to be some clearer guidance on the conflicting signals we all get about how most of us will just have a mild form of the disease, or that it only hits old people, on the one hand, and the clear alarm of health authorities about its high rate of contagion, and possibly overwhelming demands on our hospital system, on the other.

Those signals have led to a strange mix of complacency and alarm which is hard to now untangle.

Most of what I had seen so far was relaying the "don't panic" version of events. It seems like in the last day or two, as they've formally declared a pandemic, they are shifting to more reports about how the system will struggle to cope.

[EaMett]

This article has put a finger on something:



Most of what I had seen so far was relaying the "don't panic" version of events. It seems like in the last day or two, as they've formally declared a pandemic, they are shifting to more reports about how the system will struggle to cope.

The issue has mostly been with the way the american government has been handling it. They've been super complacent when the rest of the world was either getting prepped or already managing to contain the spread. Without getting too political, this has been a case of "wanting to look good" over doing the actual correct thing.
There's also some obfuscation happening around the numbers. Currently the numbers thrown around regarding the death rate of the virus is of the order of 3.4-3.6% but that's when comparing deaths to the current active cases + resolved cases. In reality a more important number would be how many people survived it (fully recovered) vs how many died. And if you look at it that way it's closer to 7% mortality rate. Which is huge, any more and it would be 1 in 10.
In america so far we're closer to 50% death rate but that is only because america isn't testing properly yet so you already need to be a serious case to have been tested, and the testing is so recent that we have very few people considered to have recovered. Most cases are still active. Everyone else has just been sent home without a test and the suggestion they self quarantine.

Furthermore, around mid-feb it seemed like the world spread of the virus was plateauing but it has since then regained it's exponential growth. It's relatively serious business.

For the curious: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/