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There is also an actuarial question to consider on the fatality rate issue. 

First let me acknowledge that all deaths are sad, I'm not disputing that.  That said, if a 10 year old dies of COVID-19 that deprives them, actuarially, of of somewhere around 70 years of life.  If an 85 year old with extensive co-morbidity factors dies, that deprives them of ~1 year of life. 

Both are sad, but the 10 year old is a much bigger cost in terms of life lost because that cost ~70 years of life vs ~1 year. 

I don't know how this is actually working.  We keep being told that 60+ or 65+ are high risk.  Anecdotally, the 85 year old in my example above wasn't hypothetical.  He was a guy who I have known my entire life who would have turned 86 yesterday but he died on Sunday of COVID-19. 

His death is sad, no doubt.  That said, his death of COVID-19 probably deprived him of ~1 year of life given his age and co-morbidity factors. 

They're already reopening in China at this very moment.

People are allowed out of their residential complexes only if they have a return-to-work pass issued by their employer, and only if the government-issued health code on their cellphone glows green — not orange or red — to show that they are healthy and cleared for travel. Residents report that some complexes deemed infection-free have quietly lost that status, without explanation.

In the malls that opened this week, people must stand five feet apart on escalators, and clothes that customers have tried on must be sprayed with disinfectant. Subway passengers must wear masks and sit two seats apart; footage on state media showed near-deserted cars and stations.

1. All I know is, I was sicker than a dog for almost two weeks in the middle of January. Never in my life got that sick from a regular flu. I think it’s possible that I may have already had this thing already and got better. I can guarantee you this thing was circulating in the US well before March.

2. So far there have been 5,000 deaths in the US. This is a country close to 350 million people if you’re including illegals. We can’t shut down the entire country and risk going into a depression over a disease that quiet honestly just isn’t that deadly. If it was a disease like Ebola that had a fatality rate of 60% or something insane like that- sure- shut the shit down.

3. I think a lot of this hysteria is driven by the media and by people that want to take down Trump. This virus is terrible don’t get me wrong, any amount of people dying is just sad, but I honestly don’t believe it’s as bad as “they” say it is. Millions and millions of people aren’t going to die from this. And millions and millions wouldn’t have died even if they didn’t lock everything down.

If you've ever been to Italy, you'd know that almost everyone is a chain smoker. If I had to guess, I'd call it 75 percent being heavy smokers.