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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by dougmwne on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:00PM (#22548368)
Are you posting in good faith? On the assumption that you are, China locked down at least 760 million people. Italy has locked down 60 million people. The economic consequences are going to be staggering. The virus would be almost impossible to eliminate without a vaccine, so once quarantine measures are lifted it would continue to spread quickly again.

It's pretty obvious if you separated people and kept them in their homes the virus would stop spreading. So what? The world cannot just stop forever. Life will go on, and so will this virus. It is with us now.

Unfortunately this is going to change your life and people you know are going to get very sick and die. Please tell the older people in your life to be very careful and DO NOT downplay the risks to them.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by grecy on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:49PM (#22548983)
> Italy has locked down 60 million people

Please don't exaggerate. In another thread here on HN someone from Italy posted exactly what it's like. They go for walks, they go to bars or restaurants and maintain 1 meter distance between people, and if they need to care for a relative or someone else they're permitted to travel to other towns/cities.

Sure, people's lives are a bit different, but say they're on "lockdown" is simply not true.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by dougmwne on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:54PM (#22551205)
This is not an exaggeration. Just because people are flouting the lockdown does not mean it isn't serious. This is not "a bit different." The PM just raised the severity of the closures today: https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2020/03/11/news/coronavir...
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by DenisM on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:18PM (#22548597)
From the official guidelines: Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by aty268 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:39PM (#22548859)
I'm just asking a question nobody else is asking because I want to understand the likely impacts of this virus rather than the hype.
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