Hard to say, in Italy the mortality rate is around 2.6%. In S.Korea about 1%. In Iran over 10%
Bit early to tell given the explosion in cases and the unreliability of some of the data. Especially re:Iran, as it looks like it’s getting to epidemic levels there.
According to whom? Link?
Look what happened. What happened after his presser is what you’re whining about in the OP.
I wouldn’t call it an explosion. You could probably walk around Italy for weeks and not encounter a single person who has been exposed.
So it’s just you opinion? Ok I can live with that.
And look. It’s aligning exactly with reality. The reality you’re mooing about in the OP.
Just who politicizes everything? Go back to the 2014 Ebola outbreak – which was contained with all eleven people who were treated in America recovering fully.
Senator Ted Cruz called President Obama’s response “fundamentally unserious”.
Senator Joni Ernst described President Obama’s response as “failed leadership.”
Senator Tom Cotton said President Obama was "not protecting our country and our families from Ebola.”
Presidential candidate Donald J Trump issues more than one hundred tweets criticizing President Obama for not doing more to contain the crisis.
Talk about politicizing a medical threat, and one which was contained in a professional manner without triggering a stock market correction.
80 cases on Tuesday. 400 on Wednesday. 650 on Thursday. 800 Today.
As for S.Korea…
Mortality rate is going to take a while to figure out, 2% doesn’t look to be out of whack at least as an average. 15% for over 80’s, 8% for over 70’s.
Since we have only recently began a vigorous attempt at identification and containment the numbers will probably go up for a few weeks. But you probably won’t get the plague that you’re hoping for.
Yeah i’m practically salivating.
But do we know the current mortality rate in the US?
The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.
10,000 people have already died of the flu since September 2019. I wonder how many of those may have died of the Corona virus instead.
To be fair let’s consider the whole story. Both of the budgets that Trump submitted to Congress had across the board large cuts to the budgets of health organizations. And both times Congress told him no and voted for budget increases.
Nobody is hoping for a plague. What we are hoping for is that this administration is straight with the public about what is going on and what is being done about it. I think that when the polling comes out on this potential crisis the president is going to have low numbers when it comes to his credibility.
Here’s one article I found about that.
Trump definitely wanted to defund them. It’s not his fault that they weren’t defunded, so Biden and Bloomberg wre correct in saying that Trump “defunded” the agencies. He just wasn’t successful in that attempt - yet.
Don’t exaggerate. I wouldn’t call it salivating. Cheerleading? Maybe.
2,000 deaths in one city. I think your objection is with intrinsic volatility of the stock market than reaction to a legitimate health threat. No?
You should take the psychic act on the road.
I think it’s an incredible over reaction. Panic for panics sake.
Hmmm. 
How do you think I would play in the U.K?
