@dave @11112011 LOL.... That was funny, I will admit.

The Orange Guy is worried and trying to downplay the seriousness of the epidemic. While propping the stock market indices which he loves to point to while they are so high up.

The virus is spreading and will do so on most countries; how things will go, is uncertain, but there will be economic impacts (drop in production and commerce, people off work due to quarantine or sickness). And the American health system is not particularly well suited to the shock of an epidemic, many people don't have insurance coverage, and some have co-pays that will create hardship.

@11112011
Italy and Iran are already feeling more widespread contamination and sickness, deaths (seems that Iran has the highest numbers, statistically; probably their hospitals are overwhelmed by the demand and the equipment needed to treat serious cases).

Saturday night, Italy set a hard restriction of people moving in or out of Lombardy and other closer regions. The North of Italy is where the largest part of the Gross National Product is generated. There will be economic costs, besides the human suffering and older relatives being left there while some of their family might be in other regions of Italy.

In the UK, they are projecting numbers of people possibly being infected, and it will be hard for their Health System to cope; their best action is to try to delay the spread, to ease the burden on the NHS.

I just started reading another interesting article on the NY Times :

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html

@dave