White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

Re:White House told federal health agency to classify corona... by justaguyhere on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:03PM (#22549196)

I see people who diligently get flu shots ignoring the severity of corona :(

I think most people still don't grasp it here. Which is probably because the govt doesn't seem to be taking it seriously too.

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Re:White House told federal health agency to classify corona... by webdevatlurk on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:26PM (#22549491)

I think people here (USA) see the news out of China/Italy and think it's not that bad here, without realizing we're 1-4 weeks away from starting to see how bad it will actually get.

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Re:White House told federal health agency to classify corona... by mathnovice on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:29PM (#22549526)

I think it's because they read that the majority of cases are "mild" symptoms not understanding that mild symptoms includes being bed ridden for 10 days and contracting pneumonia.

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Re:White House told federal health agency to classify corona... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:36PM (#22549617)

People have a really hard time grasping exponential growth.

There's the famous "would you take a million dollars, or a penny doubled every day for a month" question. People reliably make the wrong choice.

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