You may right. Dr. Birx said today that she is seeing a lot of these countries starting to bend their curves. We are not, mostly because people are not doing enough social distancing in certain areas. She specifically referred to the metropolitan areas in Louisiana, Michigan and Illinois. California is apparently doing well at this point.
By the same token, you could ask why wasn’t Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria prepared. Because each of those countries has more cases per capita than we do.
I’m probably not saying anything everyone doesn’t already know, but it’s way too early to draw any conclusions about death rates at this point. Given the wide discrepancies with testing and reporting, we probably won’t have a true figure for years, if at all. Current death rates are all over the place:
Italy- 11.9%
Spain- 8.9%
Germany- 1.1%
USA- 2.2%
France - 7%
UK - 8%
South Korea- 1.7%
Switzerland - 2.7%
China (FWIW) - 4.1%
Here is the order. Maybe I’m missing it but I don’t see any separate restrictions on crossing state lines.
https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gatherings-FOURTH-AMENDED-3.30.20.pdf
I just read the actual order and it says nothing about crossing state lines specifically. It also says that caring for pets and livestock is an essential activity.
They are not taxable income.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/03/25/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-those-tax-stimulus-checks-but-were-afraid-to-ask/#24b7145d1f9c
At today’s press conference, both doctors asked anyone who has travelled from NYC metropolitan area in the past week to self-quarantine for 14 days. More than half the new cases in the US are in New York and they are concerned about people spreading it from New York.
Well, Trump said we’re reopening for business very soon. At the same time all the Governors are shutting everything down. Nice to have a consistent message.
That’s right. At the end of the day, if the most dire predictions don’t end up happening, people will complain that we overreacted. But what they won’t understand is that the mitigation measures will have worked.
In other words, if the shutdowns work, it will end up looking like an overreaction.
Yeah, the death rate there is astounding and much higher than anywhere else in the world. I haven’t seen much information on the age range of these cases. I would assume most, but obviously not all, are elderly.
I fully expect that we won’t do this correctly.
I do have some hope that as doctors gain more experience with the virus, medical science will develop some therapeutics that can at least help somewhat. I also think they will do everything they can to accelerate the timetable for a vaccine, but that’s probably about a year away.