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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by jacobolus on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:40PM (#22634585)
15 million in the US seems like a big stretch. But more than a million is plausible if no action is taken and people go about their everyday lives as usual.
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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by MiroF on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:43PM (#22634608)
Agreed, and as many as 2.2 million.

No need to make already awful numbers into lies by multiplying by 7.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by tempestn on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:07AM (#22634771)
Personally I think 2.2 million is extremely optimistic if we're talking about a worst case where no one reacts to mitigate the spread. But ultimately it seems like we agree that it would be really bad, whether it's 2M bad or 10M bad, so no need to argue about it really.
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