Yanno, when 83% of the people who are crammed on a boat with infected passengers and crew for two weeks DON'T get the bug, it's not as infectious as many think. And, in fact, Korea's experience supports that, too. The obvious driver is the behavior of the asymptomatic infected.
With massive testing and tracking, we should quickly start looking like Korea.
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Of course, with massive testing and tracking we will start looking like Korea. That is the obvious lesson Korea has been teaching virtually from day one. But it's going to take longer here now since during the month (months?) Trump pretended it wasn't happening the virus started running unabated across the country and is still running.
There are still six states with no stay-at-home orders and eleven others only partially shut down, and still no national lock down order from the President (unless he's finally done one while I'm writing this). The governors are leading this fight, with not much help from Washington, and in some instances (New York, Michigan) in the face of outright opposition from the President. The great irony of this man's presidency is that he was so fretful the economy would tank he failed (grossly) to be the leader who could have stopped it from tanking.
But I'm not a scientist like apparently all you other guys so I have a question. If those last open states never shut down despite all the efforts and hardships of those that have, what will be the Wuhan for the next national virus wave? Fargo? Houston? Salt Lake City?
Edited by diogenes227, 01 April 2020 - 12:05 PM.