[quote=ltsdd]and for those gullible enough to believe the Chinese “official” figures of only a few thousand are infected with the related deaths of a couple hundreds. The flu infects and kills more people every year, but you don’t see entire cities getting “quarantined” like they do with Wuhan. Seems like every plane that left Wuhan had at least one infected person. That’s about 1 in 500 (.2%)? So, .2% for a city of 10 million people should yield at least about 20K infected….and you give the virus about a month to spread…what would the real figure be?[/quote]

well I did point out when the official numbers were 1000 people that I was in contact with overseas says the number was closer to 4000-5000 and that was only when this first started to get reported.

But again, over the next few weeks I think the US and Western nations will see a lot less cases and a neglible numbers of death simply because

1. lower population density
2. better sanitation and hygenie
3. better prepared medical staff
4. proactive involvement and coordination between the CDC and our federal and state governments.

It’s a good thing that the US clamped down on travel to and from China. it’s wasn’t alone too. Australia, Japan, korea, every other nation.
.. Side effect, virus will probably do more damage to China than the trade tarriffs did. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US gets better trade concessions as a result. 2020 will look good for the US me thinks after this panic subsides.