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It's not gonna be three weeks, we're not that lucky.



Once the hospitals a past capacity and people are dying in tents, it will make a lot more sense. This should have been done earlier but it wasn’t, and likely could not be in a free country.


Dying is a charitable word...you'll be left to essentially drown fully aware. Have you read the stories from Italian docs? Old and/or those with diabetes and heart issues are left alone, not by choice. Triage.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-italy-...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-doctor-says-f...


Spreading panic helps nobody.


First it's true and I'm not telling it to a 4 year old. And second:

He bitterly scorned people "on social networks who pride themselves on not being afraid and ignoring the rules, complaining because their normal lifestyle habits are 'temporarily' in crisis - all the while an epidemiological disaster is taking place".




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