If we don’t test, that means doing nothing about it at all, letting it spread unrestricted. If everyone with serious symptoms got good care, we’re talking about 2 million dead. But, of course, a lot of Americans don’t have access to good care on a good day. Since the healthcare system will be massively overwhelmed, only a small percentage will get good care. So you’re talking about something like 5-10 million dead — in the course of months.
I don’t think it would get quite that far, though, because once people start literally dying in the streets, people will be afraid and massively self-quarantine. So... maybe four million dead and the economy completely shuts down anyway.
Really, the quicker and more aggressively we jump on this, the less the damage, both in terms of human life and economic impact.
We’re too late to have a small impact. We’ll feel this for years. Let’s at least try to make something we’ll forget in a generation. Let’s especially make sure we don’t have something they’ll be talking about hundreds of years from now.
I don’t think it would get quite that far, though, because once people start literally dying in the streets, people will be afraid and massively self-quarantine. So... maybe four million dead and the economy completely shuts down anyway.
Really, the quicker and more aggressively we jump on this, the less the damage, both in terms of human life and economic impact.
We’re too late to have a small impact. We’ll feel this for years. Let’s at least try to make something we’ll forget in a generation. Let’s especially make sure we don’t have something they’ll be talking about hundreds of years from now.