Speaking of which, here's Italian mayors and governors losing it at people violating covid-19 stay at home orders. VERY satisfying and morbidly funny!

Anyway, the numbers out of this country (the United States) should scare you too, as we just became the world leader in active coronavirus cases today (at least in terms of raw numbers). Another stamp for American exceptionalism. The current epicenter here in the U.S. is New York City, which is expected to run out of available intensive care beds on Friday, as in the day after tomorrow.

My area is now under a stay at home order as well. Not only is that good health policy under these circumstances, it's made my job as a grocery store courtesy clerk a LOT easier by reducing traffic to the store back to normal levels instead of every day being more insane than Thanksgiving Eve for Christ sakes. If things stay this way, who knows, we might even get a chance to catch up in terms of restocking supplies over the next few weeks. HALLELUJAH!! YaY for draconian tyranny!!

We’ve added a new feature to @THECITYNY’s COVID-19 tracker to account for hospitalizations.

The numbers are chilling. https://t.co/rmhNKLsHbp pic.twitter.com/AjhK86C7TM

— Josefa Velásquez (@J__Velasquez) March 26, 2020

My psychology professor i took belfiore dies from the virus. He was only 50 RIP.

I'm not that down since I only knew the dude as a teacher but i am getting worried for my family and friends. Cases here in NYS and NJ are getting really bad and idk how this will end within the coming months since the vaccine is expected 2021.

I fear USA will end up being like Italy or worse, stay safe everyone and don't go outside

Got no choice... People still need saving.

5000 new infections in Germany. Makes 36.000+ in total.
Deaths also climbed +50, 200 in total now.

Badass reply :) liked.

4-5 days ago when the USA was at ~24,000 cases, and everyone was like "Yay! we hit 300,000 world wide!", "500k next week?"
"things sure look bad in italy"

Back then I was already convinced the US would be the first to hit 100k.
Even if Italy numbers, were high and still riseing quickly then.

If the US has another ~14,000 cases today, it ll likely be the country with most total infections of this virus by tomorrow.

Unofficially there are arleady some nations that have been more than 100K cases, if not I wouldn't find a real reason for a so high mortality rate in some areas of the world... yes, maybe they have an older populations, but this reason is not able to cover the entire gap...

Furthermore. in order to find the trend of temporary cases, is way better to see the number of critical cases. Now in the US there are 1455 of them, in Spain for example there are 3400.

So, beyond the number of positive cases tested, in places like Italy or Spain there have been already more than 100K cases, or 200K maybe, if the number of deaths will continue to grow so fast.