If Italy had not closed up shop and the rate of infection continued, the numbers would be significantly higher today.
By using Italy as your example, Does that mean you support the process they implemented to create social distancing? If so, then the US has a was to go because our restrictions are nothing like Italys.
Quoting: Mr_Smith I don't think you read that link.
"There have been 6,820 deaths allegedly from (really "with") Coronavirus in Italy.
Italy isn't lying, right -- we can trust those numbers (unlike Iran.)
This is the poster child for America, and specifically NY and CA. It is informing our response. It is a horrible, frightening scenario and one we must avoid, therefore we are locking down cities, claiming "major disaster" status and all sorts of other things.
Ok.
Fact: 633,000 people died in Italy in 2018.
So Coronavirus, in the worst-hit Western nation in the world, has managed to kill about 1% as many people as die on an ordinary basis in Italy -- and that assumes that Coronavirus actually caused all those deaths (hint: it didn't.)
Let's further assume before this is over that number doubles.
So Coronavirus will have killed two percent of all the people who die from all causes in Italy over a year's time.
