Looks like the Army is making up for their absence in WW2.

A study from the Columbia University estimate 86% of cases are asymptomatic, but they are driving two thirds of the new infections.

I think the emerging consensus is that the concern is not exactly "how lethal this is to me" but "how lethal this is to the healthcare system". Nowadays, we have 35 times more people over 60 and 65 times more people over 80 compared to the Spanish Flu, but ICU beds tend to operate at optimal capacities in most places and would be filled already by a flu season that is worse than average.

It's more of a warning as the government expects international flights might soon be hard to get.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6677983/coronavirus-canada-travel-abroad/

https://globalnews.ca/news/6685776/canada-coronavirus-travel-borders/

Anyway, your profile shows you're in the US. For now (today, things move so fast) there are no plans to close the US - Canada border. Flights from the US still can land anywhere. But she might have to self isolate upon returning :/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-if-you-are-returning-to-canada-from-anywhere-you-need-to-self-isolate/

the lethal 2nd wave in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic (which we should avoid calling the "Spanish Flu") afaik mainly killed people in their 20s-40s as it often caused a cytokine storm that is much more drastic in people with good immunesystems (and it is hypothised, that older ppl may have had some immunity from a 1889 pandemic), leading to 92% of it's victims apparently being below the age of 65 - todays older population might have been more resistant to it even without all the possibilities of modern medicine

Totally unrelated, but this thread has me 3rd on the points leaderboard with like a dozen posts this month. E-Penis continues to grow.

Seriously, I'm so bored rn.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
983 new cases in the US. 4.7k toral cases. 74 recovered and 91 deaths.
Seems like were finally starting to pick up testing and probably tomorrow were gonna reach 100+ deaths unfortunately.

And the virus has now reached Africa in earnest. I don't think we have any questions left of what happens there in the next days/weeks.

A similar graph like the US one (not that we'll ever get actual African numbers) would be quite a sight.

NY at 950 cases and Washington at 909. They're both gonna be over 1000 tomorrow.

Heard from a farmer friend of mine who's part of a few associations that seasonal migrant workers are likely going to fall under the Gov travel bans. While finding local help may actually be somewhat possible if industry slows down, it depends how desperate those people really are. Finding local help is damn near impossible these days when it comes to manual farm labor, even if you're willing to pay well above min wage. If this were to end up the case, a lot of farmers are going to be in considerable trouble, which will also cause stress to the food market, increasing prices and potentially causing some shortages. It's certainly not good for the migrant workers either, who many come from vacation resort type countries, who won't be able to find work there either if they can't come here.
Hopefully this illness starts to dwindle soon enough, or that the Gov starts working on a plan to help solve this potential problem along with all the rest.

Everything is a double edged sword to some degree. It's not always easy to see the other side of the blade though. If the migrants can't get tested, allowed in, and self isolated, which shouldn't be a big problem other than the medical costs for the testing, which our system takes care of those migrant workers while here, then a Gov incentive to get locals to go work on farms would make sense. I'm sure there's plenty of other things that could be done though.