Is it really worth it to ruin the financial livelihood of 200 million to save 5,000?

FFS,



You just don't get it do you...

What use is having a business if there is going to be no one to run it? This is a major disaster happening.

Ask the same question in 5 weeks, lol.

Remember if they did nothing they would kill millions, not 5000.

The inability of you dumb arses to understand exponential growth blows my mind. Let me explain it to you like you’re a child, ok?

One month ago, Italy had 3 cases. Now they have more than 21,000 cases.

1 person infected 5 to 10 other people, depending upon their age. The 20-30 year old bracket, for example, if healthy has the longest asymptomatic period while still being contagious. Understand that here: [link to twitter.com (secure)]

So, unless something is done about New York City relatively quick, the infections in the city will grow like this:

March 13: 421
March 18: 8,459
March 23: 31,304
March 25: 52,736
March 28: 114,791
and so forth...

Source for that: [link to medium.com (secure)]

OP doesn’t have the brainpower to comprehend this, so hopefully it helped someone else.

The inability of you dumb arses to understand exponential growth blows my mind. Let me explain it to you like you’re a child, ok?

One month ago, Italy had 3 cases. Now they have more than 21,000 cases.

1 person infected 5 to 10 other people, depending upon their age. The 20-30 year old bracket, for example, if healthy has the longest asymptomatic period while still being contagious. Understand that here: [link to twitter.com (secure)]

So, unless something is done about New York City relatively quick, the infections in the city will grow like this:

March 13: 421
March 18: 8,459
March 23: 31,304
March 25: 52,736
March 28: 114,791
and so forth...

Source for that: [link to medium.com (secure)]

OP doesn’t have the brainpower to comprehend this, so hopefully it helped someone else.

in the real world (Diamond Princess cruise ship), it actually was not nearly as dire as the the fear mongers were saying it would be. Less than 20% became infected (under optimal spread consitions), and most not seriously ill. 7 died, for a .2% death rate.

.2 of the US population is 650,000 dead.

Stupid fagggots like you is why everyone is now fucked. It's the seasonal flu/common cold you stupid cunt. Stop being a fucking cowardly sheep.

I don't know what is going to happen .But I know people like you are as bad if not worse than the fearmongers.Instead of just sitting back and watching and gathering information,you carry yourself like this.You come across as a scared,pitiful little person.

What you don't comprehend is that 99% of people with it won't die.
It's only the really old/sick/underlining serious condition that should be worried.

The virus is already destroying lives...

the service workers

the caterers and restauranteurs

the mechanic

the shop owner

I could go on.... most people don’t work for fortune 100 companies or municipal government entities that will keep paying their checks...

So what is really going on?

It doesn’t add up if you think linearly.

Look, I get it, as humans we think linearly. It’s our nature. Our ancestors picked apples from the three, they wanted more apples so they planted more. 1+1=2, 2+2=4.

Yeah, 413 infections, why would you shutdown the financial center of the word? It’s going to be 420, then 430, not worth it, right?

Except that’s not the right math.

The math goes more like this: 1 person infected 5, they infect 5, and they infect 5, so 1, 5, 25, 125, etc. This virus under normal conditions doubles every 6 days. In NYC, with a dense population and a lot of people in the 20-30 age range (the “super spreaders” who take the longest to show symptoms and thus are infectious the longest without symptoms).

The real numbers are these, with a slash to denote between worst case/best case:

March 18: 4,755 / 8,459
March 23: 17,621 / 31,304
March 25: 29,725 / 52,736
March 28: 64,964 / 114,791

Gentlemen I hope that I don’t come off as a pompous prick but really, this is how data science works, this is how viruses work, and if you can understand it then everything else makes sense.

THIS^^^^^