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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html

"Weekly jobless claims totaled 5.245 million, the Labor Department reported."
"That brings the crisis total to just over 22 million"

This virus caused 22million people to lose their jobs in the US.

That seems like a insanely large number (to me, I live in a small country ok!?)

I hope we only get 1 wave of this outbreak (it would be too frekkin depressing if we actually get another wave of it).
Like in denmark, we got the R0 = under 0.6, which should mean that each person that gets infected only transmits it to on avg ~0.6 others.
Give it enough time, maybe it goes away entirely.

The issue is our Prime Minster is starting to open up things gradually again.
When its likely too soon to be doing so. I think it likely we see a another infection spike due to this (here).