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do you think health officials all over the world have gotten a handle on it? or do you think it will get much worse?

AirJordan2345 posted...

do you think health officials all over the world have gotten a handle on it? or do you think it will get much worse?

58 dead already. I think itll get worse.

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MFBKBass5 posted...

58 dead already. I think itll get worse.

there were reports that china is underreporting those numbers.

Simulations estimate 65 million will die worldwide. Most of that will be in China but it will hit worldwide. In America its in California already. Anyone with previous respiratory issues or compromised immune systems is going to die.

Its going to be the worst plague since the Spanish Flu.

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where did you get the 65 mil. number? you believe it?

AirJordan2345 posted...

where did you get the 65 mil. number? you believe it? don't remember the spanish flu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/scientist-simulated-coronavirus-pandemic-deaths-2020-1

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Nope not worried at all. In Canada here we're welcoming people who have recently been in China and even Wuhan with open arms, no screening, testing etc and just let them walk around freely. One has even been determined to been carrying the virus. If we're so lax about it how bad can it really be?

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I am living in China at the moment, I have a 3.5 year old child and my 60-65 year old parents are visiting me this week from Canada, so my answer is an obvious "yes".

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ya, deadly viruses tend to concern me no matter how far away...

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It's a cause for concern and it needs to be taken seriously, but at this stage it's not a cause for panic.

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57 out of 7 billion people have died, I am not concerned.

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No.

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for now, no, as i live in the country

but if it gets loose in the usa on a large scale, that's another story

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Here in new york we have 3 negative results and 4 pending.
Every day theres a new state with infected people and we have yet to wait for the 2 week period so yes.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Simulations estimate 65 million will die worldwide. Most of that will be in China but it will hit worldwide. In America its in California already. Anyone with previous respiratory issues or compromised immune systems is going to die.

Its going to be the worst plague since the Spanish Flu.

You're speaking in absolutes. Anything is a possibility, but we don't have a need to panic yet, especially when you had stuff like SARS in 2003, which was far more deadly. The biggest difference about Coronoa, is that is spreads quicker, which is more alarm. But you also have people recovering, who had the virus. I can't see 65 million people dieing from something less severe than SARS.