If you haven’t started yet, by the time you finish binging The Walking Dead (currently in 10th season), it’ll be 28 Days Later!
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I would love to be “over prepaid” and I know someone who watched the entire X-Files series in a week!
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I hope you’re dead wrong on that call.
Are you kidding? My wife would want to take 12 a day. We recently got a tv and I’ve already learned to distract her from watching the news. They should rename the news to the “The Chicken Little Hour”
No, to what? Because everything after that doesnt really relate to anything I said.
And no, we arent “further past the edge” that Italy. We have far more area that is far less dense. Individual cities might have that potential, but not the whole country.
Has your wife seen how you take the test?
I saw Dr so & so (can’t remember his name) describe how they administer the test. They go through the nose & down into the throat. That’s called a throat swab! 
Drive-thru testing coming to an In-N-Out near you
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Now that China stopped its dirty factories and people stopped driving to work, the air is way too clean around here. I can’t breathe unless I sit at the In-N-Out drive-through line for 30 minutes, idling, with the windows open.
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All comes back to testing (earlier).
Just on a raw numbers basis on count of confirmed cases growth relative to total population we may be already past Italy’s situation (today’s situation can’t be seen accurately until about 2 weeks from now, even with “perfect” testing. It takes weeks with any mediation measures to see any effect. ). However, due to a dearth of testing – MUCH less than even Italy, those official numbers are even more underinflated vs comparison.
Whole states (if not all of them) had specific rules for even requesting tests that were designed with the sole intent to hide the problem. WA and NY may not even be the worst areas. WA could have just been very lucky that an anomalous cluster of deaths and severe illness showed up in a nursing home. Elsewhere, the same situation but the first infected there at home would have just died and been marked “natural causes”— but not before spreading it to more people and their younger visitors who spread it to them would have also been spreading it. No possibility any of them would be tested – the rules specifically prevent(ed) the possibility of finding ANY community transmission from an unknown local patient 0.
We also have less hospital capacity per capita than Italy.
Edit: set the charts to logarithmic here (Italy COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer) and compare US and Italy. You should be both scared and also upset at the criminal negligence of our elected officials.
Not nearly as much as I, myself, hope i’m wrong. Hopefully not also dead, but always possible. Not old or super vulnerable myself, but I have often dealt with both sinus and respiratory infections. “Mild” cases are also mostly NOT “sniffles, like a cold”.
Unfortunately, “hopes and prayers” rarely help.
Every new day looking back, it seems I have been overly optimistic, and I still could be.
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LULZ
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I told this to my dad, too, one of the safest place to go currently. He thought it was a joke.
Singapore still looks good, also, right? And it’s not as bad as China in all other respects?
One benefit of easy and available testing would be knowing that you already had the virus and can go about your daily life again. A test for antibodies made against the virus rather than just looking for the virus itself could do this. After all, with many cases being quite mild, you could easily be left thinking you might have had some virus/flu/cold but just got over it and don’t know whether to keep worrying about Covid-19.
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A couple articles on the lighter side care of this humor site.
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I wrote that seventeen days ago. OK, perhaps I was just a tad bit optimistic. Thank goodness nobody paid any attention. 
But the DJIA is much lower now. Surely we are, at this point, near to the bottom. I mean, how much lower can this market go for goodness sake?
This is often parroted. But the majority are NOT that definition of mild. Even the trump task force has said so. Half of the “mild” categorization is pretty severe.
Edit: I suppose the remaining 40% of a very huge number IS technically still “many”…
My only point was to be like Italy, you’d have to cram 20% of the US population in to an area slightly larger than the state of Oregon. It simply wont get that bad nationwide because the (lack of) density wont facilitate it. And that’s why a similar style lockdown isnt practical. Some cities might get really bad, and some are already instituting lockdowns. But not nationwide.
But even if you’re immune, you can still be contaminated and spread the virus to others. It’d only be a risk for a short time, but that’s a short time after each time you come in contact with the virus - and you’d have no idea of when that might happen. So you’re still stuck dealing with it until the end, like everyone else.
There’s these things called airports. Fortunately, the airport is spaced out with no lines to go through security theater. And then you’re only sitting in the plane a couple minutes. The economy seats are large, everyone’s several feet away from the next passenger. All the passengers are also going and coming from the same place.
Additional comparison (note that only the national quarantine is indicated, but they had full quarantines of the other areas before that) :
Well yeah, “severe” to hear the doctors talk about it means you need to be in the hospital due to breathing issues. But there are definitely people who don’t get symptoms (kids among others), and with a shortage of testing here in the US so far, another chunk who know they got a virus and it wasn’t great, but maybe they don’t know if it was this one or not when they end up surviving without any assistance.
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