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Re:CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 wee... by op03 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:00PM (#22634256)
Do the math for your neighborhood or county and you will sleep better.

State numbers and national numbers for anything can freak anyone out if they dont deal with large numbers day in day out. Big numbers hide small numbers distributed all over the map.

Plug in numbers for India or China and it's not complicated to produce helplessness and heatattacks.

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Re:CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 wee... by jader201 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:06PM (#22634308)
According to these numbers, all you have to do is look at the percentage: 56%.

That’s a big number in any scale. That’s over half of your family and friends.

Not arguing these numbers are accurate. Just saying that they’ll still freak you out if you believe they’re accurate.

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