I'd make a comment about how these people are insects who don't care about anything or anyone but goddamn some stupid broad and her husband here in the US lied to get off that cruise ship. That cunt should spend the rest of her convalescence in a prison. Her husband, too. And anyone poised to go, well what do you charge them with?! How about reckless endangerment?
That's one thing i was fearing too.
Hear me out on this one, but most of you probably already realized this... As anything else, i hope i'm fucking dead wrong about this but the mortality rate will be incredibly higher than what reported...
Dr campbell said it best in his videos tho, but when you connect the dots of the rapidity of the spread and the severe cases numbers coming out of countries outside of china, we still need to wait to take in account the "lag" of infection and development of symptoms in healthier layers of the population (aka, younger people probably have a longer "incubation-time" for the virus to have the time to hit the immune system and gradually degrade it, to the point of , 14 to 20 days later, start to show as symptoms)
When 14 to 20 days from here multiple thousand of cases appears everywhere, NO HOSPITALS, none, even in our first world countries, has anywhere near enough supplies, oxygen, anything to treat such large amount of people, hence why China has asked everyone to barricade themselves at home, and probably welded doors shut, and burned whole buildings in many areas.
The reality of this is, when it's going global even at 1 / 3 of the china numbers each in most countries, the medical chain will be overburdened and probably get sick, fall to the virus too because you can take all the precautions you want man, but hospitals aren't P2 or P3 /P4 biolabs equiped with full desinfection for that kind of shit, the usual precaution / fertilization measures used , even in nice and wealthy hospitals is nowhere near enough to not get, at one point or another, be it from stress, fatigue, taking too much turns, the virus gonna slip in a medic or two from too much exposure to patients.
The medical chain will eventually break down, and it's thousands of people that just, even with the sole bottleneck of a FULL speed running medical care in any hospital, you cannot treat more than maybe a thousand to 2 thousand patients at one time, and this number is pretty grossly high for any medical infrastructure without expecting the "normal" rate of human failure too.
I'm afraid to be the "prophet of doom" here, but In the mid to long term this just means millions of people will just not receive ANY sort of treatment and if they have mild symptoms they are just going untreated and the mortality rate will just be much higher and serious than what we think about.