We are 10-15 days behind Italy with the Coronavirus.

[Coventina]

Just now on MSNBC.

What that means is hundreds of deaths, thousands of new cases and hospitals being completely overwhelmed with people dying in hallways.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. I fear this too

I think Italy started with 1 person in one area, we have people scattered all over the country with this, we could end up with 50 Italy type out breaks at once.

[Jarqui]

2. Could be worse here because

- Trump has downplayed the danger and severity
- little testing has been done
- Trump has ordered taking down posters warning folks about the virus in the courts
- Trump shut down the warning the CDC wanted to give the elderly not to fly
etc

Trump has seemingly done his best to engineer a worse outcome than Italy

[58Sunliner]

4. He sure has.

[5X]

3. That is being optimistic.

I'd guess 7 or 8 days and it will be exploding.

[totodeinhere]

5. This is very serious. But people living in more remote less populated areas might have

a little more time to get ready. There are things you can do now to help protect yourself. If you have not been exposed yet and if you isolate yourself you might be alright for the time being. If we can wait it out until there is a vaccine then we have a chance. Plus it won't kill everybody. A lot of people will survive it, and even most older people will survive it. But it's definitely not something you want to get

[Mike 03]

6. Recommended

[Coventina]

7. kicking for afternoon crowd