"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
"Things will get worse." How much worse it will get depends on two things, he said: containing the influx of infected people coming from other countries and containing local outbreaks within the U.S.
When pressed by lawmakers for an estimate of eventual fatalities in the U.S., Fauci said it will be “totally dependent upon how we respond to it.”
“I can’t give you a number,” he said. “I can’t give you a realistic number until we put into the factor of how we respond. If we’re complacent and don’t do really aggressive containment and mitigation, the number could go way up and be involved in many, many millions.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/top-federal-health-official-says-coronavirus-outbreak-is-going-to-get-worse-in-the-us.html
I hope those in denial will ever understand this. Extreme measurements will reduce deaths by a huge factor and I hope they won't be so stupid to say in a year or so "ohh only a few thousand people have died, I told you that the normal flu is much worse and that everything was so overblown"
But that's exactly what they will tell everyone. Some at my work are also like that. They annoy me so much atm because they will never be able to accept that only the extreme measurements they complain about will be the reason why maybe some few thousand and not hundred thousands or even millions will die in bigger countries.
