Americans should prepare for coronavirus spread in U.S., CDC says

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48. This takes me back to 1982 and the AIDs/HIV outbreak.

I remember how the urgency in addressing the AIDs outbreak was ignored by our then President, HRH Ronald Reagan. There was no real outcry from his administration, it was a joke, labeled a ''gay disease'', the "gay plague". So many young people died as a result of doing nothing. But there was no real threat to the economy nor the stock market. No one was worried about commerce and trade coming to a sudden stop. Back then, ground zero for the AIDs outbreak was the Castro community in San Francisco, not Wuhan, China, a vast manufacturing center of high technological consumer goods important for the U.S. economy. Yesterday and today the stock market has been plummeting due to skepticism surrounding the virus.

The virus is spreading, although The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) say they are now researching the virus and most likely will develop a vaccine at some future date,how long it will take is not clear, it could be as much as two years.

It's no rude awakening that profits and dividends are way more important than lives in this country, nothing seems to gain our attention or immediate action more than the loss of either one.

From the time AIDs was diagnosed and coined the human immunodeficiency virus in 1981, over 700,000 deaths have been reported and 1.1 million are living with HIV. Medications are giving people back their lives, but it's taken 38 years.