Bill Gates told the CNN Town Hall this week that every county in the US must shut down. That's based on the research his foundation has done with diseases around the world. EVERY COUNTY and there are still states that have not shut down! There are some indications this virus can be defeated in sixty days with a total shutdown but that probably means we can't begin counting the sixty days until the last of the Republican governors in the open states, as bodies begin to pile up around them, finally relent and issue stay at home orders.
Otherwise those states will be the source of the next wave - NATIONWIDE WAVE -- of the virus that could carry us into next year.
There's good news and bad on the chart below. The rest of the world has varying degrees of hopeful news, America is the bad news.
P.S. I'm calling this the "Trump Curve" since it's his leadership at the got us here.
Please do some research. Look at this map. Does it really matter if anyone travels to the 4 states that have not shut down?
I'd say no. So, did Bill say anything meaningful, no.
Did Bill spread fear, yes.
The issue will not be traveling to the states that have not shut down, it will be traveling from those states. It's like Trump said at the beginning "We have it under control, it's just one person from China."
Good to see Alabama, Georgia shut down yesterday, and I guess Oklahoma too. You'd think peer pressure if nothing else, since they don't believe in science nor care about their fellow Americans, might finally get the last states to invoke stay-at-home social-distancing orders. I guess the Georgia governor has been in a coma or something since he's said he just learned Thursday this virus was serious.. These clowns.
By the way, Gates is not alone in suggesting a nationwide shut down. I hear on the media a lot of the pee-in-the-swimming-pool analogy now. It is apt.
What ... people in the least populated states with the lowest probability of having the virus are going to move to the most populated states with high infection rates????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? They deserve to get sick if they are that stupid.
Self isolate means staying away from people!
Edited by Dex, 04 April 2020 - 09:26 PM.