Thanks for the update Marty I thought you caught them from reeses cups. LOL

But my point is not to cower in our houses thinking the angel of death is walking the streets looking for a law breaker who happened to go out. The media and politicians are election medelling 101 !!!!

So who should people believe? I believe what I witness and the numbers I see. My wife is a Doctor and owns her own practice. We aren’t real concerned about the virus. None of the information she receives from big brother would lead us to be. I don’t know where some of these people get their “facts” that I know are just repeated nonsense. Use common sense people, don’t risk spreading this because people with compromised immune systems do not need to come in contact. Just like seasonal Flu which as of right now has killed far more this year than this virus is on pace to kill. As of yesterday this virus had killed enough people globally to make up .09% of the U.S. population. Some places it has run its course and is exponentially falling off in infection rates. The death toll globally was still under what seasonal flu kills in the U.S. alone. Dr. Fauci says the mortality rate is close to 1% when all said and done. When they finally have enough tests and can start research instead of herding the sheep!

Please stop fueling this hysteria fire!

Notice how everyone ignores facts and continues on with the hysteria?

The title of this thread is Corona over hyped. I guess we'll see who is right and who eats crow in a couple weeks. I know I have changed my mind in the last two weeks.

If you live under a rock in the middle of no where you probably have time and space to conjure up whatever conspiracy theory you can dream up, but for those who live in congested areas who have loved ones that are in that "compromised" bracket, things seems a little more real and concerning.

Kind of like when they have wolf meetings in Bloomington, MN. No wolves in Bloomington, MN so those folks don't have a clue what's really happening where there are wolves.

My Girlfriend works for Mayo and keeps up on it from inside. The docs who are working on it down there are plenty worried (good enough for me) and have canceled their vacations into August now. But I suppose they are part of the big conspiracy, too. dunno.

Personally whenever someone cries govt conspiracy, I hear the same thing as when people cry racism today. All I hear is I have nothing factual to base anything on so I'll scream one of the two. Nobody takes anyone who cries either seriously and we think you're nuts.

And no I don't trust our govt...However, I have worked for the govt for 22 years now and am fully aware something like this virus is far far past what the govt is capable of thinking up and implementing.

We are now seeing real people we know getting it. Stay tuned. I hope the experts are wrong (as I thought a couple weeks ago).

The Best So far!!!! Excellent take on it!!!!

The numbers being given to us don't correlate to the fatality rate they are telling us. 318662 confirmed cases 13672 deaths = 4.3% fatality, most of the cases just happened in the last few days and are certain to become fatalities so that number is going to go up. 3 months to reach 100000 cases, 12 days to go from 100000 to 200000. Really is time to take this seriously, stay safe.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103046/new-coronavirus-covid19-cases-number-worldwide-by-day/

https://www.who.int/docs/default-so...sitrep-61-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=6aa18912_2

But my point is not to cower in our houses thinking the angel of death is walking the streets looking for a law breaker who happened to go out.

Yet there are still people saying “This is so stupid. The coronavirus is just a common cold—that’s it.”

If I had a trillion dollars every time entire nations were locked down due to common colds....

The "cower in our houses" instruction is intended more to keep us from infecting others than to protecting ourselves. I guess the dumb framers of that instruction think we can transmit the virus before we are sick enough to know we have it.

This is deadlier than flu, more contagious than flu and has a long incubation time for the infected to be contagious and show no symptoms and the flu has a vaccine. 70,000,000 to 150,000,000 are expected to get coronavirus in the US. 4.2% of 70,000,000 is 2,940,000 .5% of 70,000,000 is 350,000. If the numbers they are giving us are right things are going to get bleak.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/up-...ronavirus-congressional-doctor-says.html

Enlighten us oh wise one.