re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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GOP_Tiger has been anything but doom and gloom on all these threads.

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So many people seem to have a rooting interest in one "side" or another, which is absurd. This isn't some freaking football game where you choose a team and root for it. People need to, at least temporarily put aside their own personal and political interests and actually look at the evidence.

And that evidence is that the US is not going to be nearly as bad off as Italy or Spain. I outlined critical flaws in the Imperial study when it was released. You don't need a year's supply of food and an underground bunker.

On the other hand, I have consistently fought back against people who have said that "this is just the flu" and called it a nothingburger.

The truth is that COVID-19 is serious, threatened to overwhelm our healthcare system, and we needed the shutdowns (and my own business is shut down and I'm going broke, OK, so I hate the fact that they were necessary) until we can run enough tests to control the spread of the virus.

The good news is that our testing ability is ramping up quickly, better weather is going to slow down the spread, and we're on the verge of treatment options that will improve mortality rates and help us keep our ICUs open.

In two weeks, it will be clear that we have turned the tide and are winning the fight against this pathogen.