(03-09-2020, 08:57 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(03-09-2020, 08:51 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: The facts are, somewhere between 9 and 40 million people get the flu each year in the United States, in spite of all the vaccinations.   Approximately 10,000, give or take a few thousand, die of it each year.  The Covid-19 death rate is currently measured somewhere around 2%.   But even if the death rate is only 1%, if 10 million people get it, 100,000 people will die of it.  This is why people are alarmed.  It appears to be extremely contagious, and more deadly than the flu.  And we don't yet have a vaccine for it like we have for the flu.  

The race to contain it is going to hammer the economy.

How do we contain it?