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You misunderstand my intent. If Coronavirus is still a significant problem in six months, governments may have collapsed. -- (edited)

Posted by David (aka David) Mar 17 '20, 21:46

Keep in mind that I'm the opposite of an alarmist.

I think that we've (finally) taken the necessary steps to prevent such nonsense. Even though I'm confident that people around the world aren't reporting accurate data, I have every confidence that we'll beat this now.

However, based on the math that I showed in the thread above, even a 10% growth rate for 90 days would mean 34.5 million Americans have Coronavirus. As many as 1.7 million are dead...and that's just us.

Y'all are worrying about election turnout and Supreme Court justice nominations in the fall. I'm worried about the implosion of society in that scenario.

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One of the threads I read (e.g., grain of salt) suggested about 2 years before things can start returning to normal. - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:05 2
- It all depends on people's definitions of normal. I expect Americans to be out and about again in eight weeks.* - David Mar 17, 22:19 1
  - I'm taking the "over" on that one. - Beryllium Mar 17, 22:33

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You misunderstand my intent. If Coronavirus is still a significant problem in six months, governments may have collapsed. -- (edited)

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