what will be the final total amount of people infected by coronavirus?

[Slime]

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[Shaun]

it's just another overblown "disease of the year century"... like West Nile, H1N1, Zika, Swine Flu, and SARS. Anyone with a brain understands that right? Boy is my face red! The infection rate is on a trajectory above 10k, though that's still not a big deal; when the media isn't talking about it anymore, that's when you start to worry

I'd rather get Coronavirus than the regular flu because the best doctors in the world will be monitoring my sickly ass

[Slime]

you don't really know how far it will spread. it is only just now starting to affect multiple people in Japan, it only just hit the middle east... what if it hits India or somewhere like that?

i could potentially see it hitting the 3rd option (100k-1M), but i voted for option 2

the death toll is low, but the infection rate alone can affect things that matter, like the world market

[Bobby Swisha]

It's spreading at a faster rate than SARS did, but at a much lower chance percentage-wise of dying from it.

[Bravoie]

It's going viral!

[Slime]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

slowed down a lot today, but don't forget, "up to 2 weeks without symptoms"... it is still a mystery how bad this will get

[Bobby Swisha]

I think that they will probably stop it before it does too much damage but this just lets you know the kind of things we're in for in the future

[Bobby Swisha]

Originally Posted by Lohr

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

slowed down a lot today, but don't forget, "up to 2 weeks without symptoms"... it is still a mystery how bad this will get

edit

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...cuate-citizens

[Dave Miles]

I’m so far north and isolated I think I’m stand a pretty good chance. You city people are doomed though.

[Slime]

Originally Posted by Lohr

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

deaths sure shot up today

(if it doesn't update, refresh the page... i had to refresh)

[Slime]

we have officially reached option 2

[Slime]

a

[Slime]

dow jones down 600 points due to virus

[Slime]

[Bobby Swisha]

Originally Posted by Chris Lohr

A Chinese airline is offering travelers a rare deal: a flight from Hong Kong to New York for $201.
The catch? You have to stop in Wuhan, China, for six hours.

LoL

[Nixon]

they just quarantined all the brits who come from wuhan in a hospital 5 minutes away from my house, R.I.P me

[Happyjuice]

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...d-15023051.php
They're housing quarantined Americans at work. Great

[Slime]

geez... looking like this poll should have been the total amount of 3DMMers infected by coronavirus

[Bobby Swisha]

haha, nice. * sprays clorox on thread *

[Shaun]

"If I get the coronavirus, I'll sleep it off if I can. I won't go to the doctor unless I absolutely have to, because I can't afford a big medical bill."
-- 30 million Americans

[Bobby Swisha]

does the US gov not cover infectious diseases or something?

[Dave Miles]

I mean they’ll probably cover your dead body with a plastic tarp, but your relatives will have to pay for the tarp.

[Bobby Swisha]

eh.. I think that shit gets subsidized somehow. I mean I have a hard time imagining all the people that had ebola had to pay for it out of pocket.

there's no way we're paying millions of dollars to fight Ebola in Africa but if you have it and come to America... you suddenly have to pay 100,000s for it yourself if you don't have insurance. Right? Surely it would be covered under the same sort of expenditure, to some degree...

[Mr Mong]

I got the sniffles around the same time kung flu was announced and we order product from china so i nearly pood my pants. Fine now tho wuhoo

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Bobby Swisha

eh.. I think that shit gets subsidized somehow. I mean I have a hard time imagining all the people that had ebola had to pay for it out of pocket.

there's no way we're paying millions of dollars to fight Ebola in Africa but if you have it and come to America... you suddenly have to pay 100,000s for it yourself if you don't have insurance. Right? Surely it would be covered under the same sort of expenditure, to some degree...

You'd think medical bills from mass shootings would be subsidized too, but you'd be wrong.

According to USAID.gov the government has given only $38 million in aid to fight ebola in the Congo... That's worth what, 500 hospitalizations?

According to Wiki, there have only been 11 cases of ebola in the US since 2014, nine of which were people from Africa or working in Africa, along with two nurses. I seriously doubt any of these people didn't have some kind of private coverage

Has there been an instance in the past forty years where the government stepped in and decided to cover uninsured people for one specific illness?? Why would they do that? The free market's got it covered!