re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

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I don't want to have to shut this whole thing down.

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Okay - back to Coronavirus.

Notable: Original statements a week and a half ago announced at White House presser and blasted all over by the media (which is surely enjoying the non-stop viewing): 150,000 - 200,000 American deaths with social distancing and economy shutting down; up to 2 million if we were to do nothing.

3 days ago, projection of US deaths: 111,000
Yesterday: downgraded to 93,521
Today: downgraded to 81,766

Okay...so this is being credited to much more and better data that's coming in...and of course they will say it's because the social distancing is working.

But when does someone start to ask if maybe the initial doomsday models were extremely overblown or even biased to inspire the fear necessary to get the social distancing going in the first place?

Where do the curves cross? Let's say we wind up with 60,000 US deaths.... Will that have justified the economic damage and TRILLIONS in additional federal debt on top of what is already a record deficit?

Not to minimize death but this is reminding me of the hurricane that was supposed to hit Florida as a Category 5 a few years back...and wound up a Cat 2 by landfall.