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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to... by greedo on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:42AM (#22535825)
Or you could listen to the experts on disease, and not let your innate optimism to blind you to the reality:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to... by hef19898 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:01PM (#22537196)
I haven't heard any expert (doctor, epidemiologist, virologist,...) making the claim that epidemics can be extrapolated until the number of infected people equals the total number of people. Pandemics burn out eventually by their own way before that.
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