Just out of curiosity

Projections are for it to double every six days. That’s 4 million by May, in the U.S. alone. More than this, the masks and hospital beds aren’t enough. Masks will run out for health professionals, unless they make more pretty fast, but most come from China. An engineer worked out the math, and it doesn’t look good. @BlueVeins

@Carissimi Where you getting that from? I know the virus spreads very fast, but that sounds excessive.

An engineer, and I can’t remember her name, did the math based on evidence coming from Italy, and the rate of spread there. She also took the number of hospital beds in the U.S., and masks stockpiled by the government, and did the calculations to see how long they would last, given how many healthcare workers would need to use them. She extrapolated from all the data that we have, and came up with these projections. I’ll see if I can find her name. @BlueVeins

Right, having 2-6 billion infected by summer is nothing. @Larold99

@Carissimi exactly lol do you think it will be that high

It’s a possibility based on extrapolating data based on rate of spread, and other factors. An engineer came up with these projections, and she said she used conservative numbers. Projected 4 million in the U.S. by mid-late May. 2-6 billion worldwide. @Larold99

You can take precautions. That may change your outcome. @curiosi

@plungesponge yeah one of my co-workers were talking about this

It's not just the virus either, if the medical system gets overwhelmed with sick, critically sick and deceased patients, that means doctors and nurses get sick and taken out of action, and regular ailments start turning deadly. A person with a burst appendix over the next few months is going to find it difficult to organize a surgery. A person who breaks a limb can't find a hospital bed or has to be in a ward with the infectious. People on regular medications may find stocks running out, not just due to panic buying but because India makes a lot of pharmaceuticals and now they have the virus.

@plungesponge shit

@Larold99 a 50-50 bleach water solution in a little squirt bottle is more effective than hand sanitizer and a lot cheaper.

@puck61 and are people really buying out hand sanitizer

@Larold99 I heard there was some price wars happening! People are going to die and the global economy is going to suffer. This might serve as a lesson to all these people who want to fill their countries with anyone and everyone who wants to come. If this happened under a liberal utopia scenario, it would be the nemesis of mankind.