Agree.
That's what the daily media should be reporting, non stop and factual info on who is at risk etc.
Not tallying every positive test in every county city and state. Scaring the **** out of people that dont understand what's going on.
Definitely good that China was able to slow the spread, it shows what can be done if measures are taken to slow the spread of the virus. But they put a city/region of over 11 million people on complete lockdown. Wuhan was quarantined in a way that we’d have a hard time replicating in the US. Canceling sports and closing Disneyland is nothing compared to what they did in Wuhan.
There are survivor stories out there, this one is a woman in Seattle. Both good and bad, she was at a small house party where no one had symptoms at the time. 3 days later 40% of the party attendees were sick. Testing was delayed. She recovered, which is great, but some of the info she gives points out shortcomings in our system that will make it harder to contain this.
But we don’t currently have the testing capacity in most places to even test all the suspected cases. So those numbers will rise just as more testing is completed- even without further spread. And with a 3-5 day delay before symptoms show up there’s already more people infected and not currently showing symptoms.
People shouldn’t freak out. But they should also still take precautions. If we limit the spread now it won’t be a big deal. If we don’t we’ll get new cases at an exponential rate and the impact could be pretty serious.