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Message: [QUOTE="Marbles90, post: 3484266, member: 7436"] There is something about the math doesn't add up for me. Look at the NBA. 7 players? And 4 are not showing any symptoms. The only reason we know they have it is because they tested everyone in the NBA. We all know how difficult it is to make it to the NBA. With 330,000,000 people in the US, the probability of being an NBA player in the US is ~ .00001% With 4K Coronavirus cases in the US, the probability of having the virus is ~ .0001%. So the probability of being both and NBA player AND have the virus? And there are 7??? The math does not add up. Hundreds of thousands of people probably have it now or have had it or have/had it and are showing no symptoms. If we take that into account, the % of severe case is much lower. There is no way to totally isolate it out. We need a solid plan of what we are doing for the next few weeks/month. I agree with what we are doing now but we cannot sustain it. We flatten the curve over the next few weeks and better prepare for the extreme cases. And then we start encouraging people to get back to normal. If we try to wait it out until this all goes away, it will be well into the summer and there will still people contracting it. The damage of closing down the country probably will outweigh the damage of the virus. This is all, of course assuming we do not find a treatment/vaccine. [/QUOTE]