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thelaine-You really need to educate your self on Covid-19. China's steps and what they did (of course-it's probably not feasible in the U.S.) shows how to stop COVID-19. And your port is the opposite of what is PROVEN to halt the spread.

@CKNSLS Sierra SLT Had China bothered to regulate their food supply in any meaningful way versus looking the other way, likely due to corruption this would not have happened. I hope they take a bath as companies decide to no longer put all of their supply chain eggs in that single basket.

@thelaine: You first. "Normal precautions" don't work for a virus that survives 3 hours in the air, and 3 days on surfaces. Please stop it.

@Art Vandelay ART You are spot on. China has culpability here. Their direct action and IN ACTIONs have caused the problem and the high level of impact. Evil society on many levels. They need to pay a price for this.

@CKNSLS Sierra SLT The truth is the spread can't be halted; everyone posting here and reading this comment are likely to be exposed to COVID-19 at some point over the next year. And almost all of us will fend it off without too much difficulty or any need to visit a doctor. I get the desire to "flatten the curve" through "social distancing," and of course none of us want any of our family or friends to get sick. However, the reality is that it's also not worth tanking the global economy to save Grandpa. I also agree with those posting that China must face severe retribution for this. This wouldn't have happened at this level had the ChiComs been forthright from the beginning (and if the WHO hadn't fallen so easily for their party line.)

@SCE to AUX Well, I'm still at work, so OK

@C5 is Alive They are like any other Communist dictatorship...rotten from the inside. And spare me the "Could happen anywhere and our Government is corrupt too" talk (not you Red, but it's coming). Remember when tainted US Food became a Global Pandemic? Yeah, neither do I because when we have a food issue the supply is regulated to the point that they can trace it back to the freaking Farm and date of harvest typically. This is what First World nations do. Yes, a Pandemic could start in the US or Europe, but not this Pandemic. On top of admonishing them and diversifying supply chains, The West as a whole should suspend service payments on Chinese held debt as a means to help finance the clean up of their mess.

@C5 is Alive Exactly

@Art Vandelay Me too. So OK. I have family to feed.

@SCE to AUX Your just afraid of dying from fluid filling your lungs.

@CKNSLS Sierra SLT You do the same, CKN https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center.

@SCE to AUX People are beginning to learn the truth, despite the hysteria. Pew reports that 70 percent of Americans believe that the outbreak poses a major risk to the nation’s economy, while 47 percent say it is major threat to the population’s health. Just 27 percent said they believe that the new virus presents a major hazard to their own personal health and 51 percent say it’s a minor threat. Twenty-two percent even believe that the outbreak poses no risk at all to their health.

@SCE to AUX Fewer than 200 have died in the U.S. and under 9,000 worldwide. According to the CDC, during the 2018-2019 flu season, an estimated 16.5 million people got sick and 34,000 died in the U.S. alone.

@thelaine This season of COVID has barely started. Comparison to past virus outbreaks doesnt prove much.

@SSJeep The Corona wave has pretty much passed over China. About 3,500 deaths in a population of almost 1.4 billion. Virtually all of them in the vulnerable population. We should put all of our efforts into protecting them, and the rest of us should take the usual flu precautions, stop the fear and hysteria, and get back to work.

@SSJeep If we take the same steps as China, you'll be back here within minutes bawling over how the jackbooted thugs took away your freedom. Hint: most parts of the country haven't even been exposed to the virus, because of extremely strict restrictions on internal movement.

@SSJeep China closed the barn door after the horse got out. The virus spread all over the country and the world by the time they imposed harsh restrictions.

@thelaine And how many Americans believe that the world is flat, that humans co-habited with dinosaurs and that vaccines cause autism? There is no law against being 'willfully ignorant'. But I do agree with holding back any payments to China as reparations.

@C5; No need to recount statistics, instead we can just compare your comments to that of another famous capitalist named Scrooge: "If they would die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

@Arthur Dailey Sorry Arthur, but mine is a perfectly rational approach to this crisis, whereas your glib response plays further into emotion and fear. I won't presume your motivations for doing so. We're all going to die; those claimed by this virus would likely have died from something in relatively short order anyway. The current hysteria is not worth bringing down the global economy; there is no rational argument otherwise.

@Arthur Dailey "We’re all going to die; those claimed by this virus would likely have died from something in relatively short order anyway." wow, don't cut yourself on that edge, kid.

@Arthur Dailey I'm 45, kiddo. Again, mine is the rational position. I refuse to bend to those allowing emotion and fear to dictate their actions. Not one of us is indispensable. Or immortal.

@SSJeep The virus spread all over the world, but not all over the country. And the areas where it did spread limited the impact through widespread testing, tracking, and strict limits on movement. In other words, exactly the things that you are saying are overreactions when officials here want to do them.