Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

I am all of those things, but I am not worried about the virus.

 

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

 

[falken]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will...tm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023

104 year old WWII vet recovers from Coronavirus in Oregon.

 

[webicknell]

Well... We just broke 1MM recorded cases

 

[Dundee]

They seem to be pushing the line that 100000-200000 may die from this. I feel like they're doing that so that when the numbers come in less than that, they'll trumpet it as a huge win. Gives them then something to work with, something to pitch.

 

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

They seem to be pushing the line that 100000-200000 may die from this. I feel like they're doing that so that when the numbers come in less than that, they'll trumpet it as a huge win. Gives them then something to work with, something to pitch.

Makes for good political theater.

 

[the_great_white]

They seem to be pushing the line that 100000-200000 may die from this. I feel like they're doing that so that when the numbers come in less than that, they'll trumpet it as a huge win. Gives them then something to work with, something to pitch.

or......they're underselling it as not to cause mass panic....

 

[batoncolle]

Yet another potential vaccine for this...

https://www.wesa.fm/post/pitt-researchers-tout-potential-vaccine-against-coronavirus#stream/0

 

[Mrs_Esterhouse]

Here it comes!

 

[Dundee]

or......they're underselling it as not to cause mass panic....

which is assuming they care more about us than about themselves. I'm just always going to assume "they" care more about themselves and their position.