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I'll continue to post reports as I come across them and welcome anyone else to do the same.

Seems there's been a resurgence in Iran unfortunately, partly attributed to crowded subways and a failure to maintain distance and wear masks.

Iran Sees New Surge in Virus Cases After Reopening Country - The New York Times

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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1753788)

With all the hand-wringing going on fearing the worst after we reopen the economy, it seems to me it could be beneficial to focus like a laser beam on the experience of other countries. China, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Italy and Spain have all locked down. They were hit hard but eventually lifted their restrictions, or are in the process of doing so now.

I would think the media would report on how those countries are doing, but I'm not hearing or reading much of anything and there's very little information about this on the internet, that I've been able to find anyway. Our outcome should be similar to theirs, so where is the curiosity about how they're doing? We can learn a lot from these countries, and perhaps mitigate our fears...or substantiate them if lifting the restrictions is backfiring.

The media give the people what they want, so my guess is the American populace doesn't care too much about how the other hard hit countries have fared. Perhaps we would rather just worry and assume the worst?

Our daughter and son in law are still sheltering in place in London. She said they are rule followers over there. She is glad we are taking it seriously.

Easy.
Follow the advice and instructions of the medical community and you will Live.
Follow the advice of so called political leaders and you will die.

But seriously, all those news sources from the source that was hidden for months. How much can you trust information that comes from people that eat dinner with sticks.
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Originally Posted by JimJohnson (Post 1767577)

Easy.
Follow the advice and instructions of the medical community and you will Live.
Follow the advice of so called political leaders and you will die.

Rely on science, from trained scientists, instead of hunches from celebrities? Where's the adventure and chance of being seen as a tough guy in that? I'm sending thoughts, prayers and Clorox to the hunch follower's.

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Originally Posted by JimJohnson (Post 1767577)

Easy.
Follow the advice and instructions of the medical community and you will Live.
Follow the advice of so called political leaders and you will die.

Isn't that just a little bit of an exaggeration? For anyone that gets infected with the virus, they have a 98% chance of surviving. For the general population, we all have somewhere around a 99.5% of surviving. Regardless of whose advice we follow.

Never seen so many TV doctors. Every network have their experts to tell the people how they want you to act. Can't believe most of what is pushed on us.

Here's some good news from a health policy analyst.

Excerpt: "...the states that have started to reopen their economies, allowing crowds to take to beaches and bars, haven't seen a significant increase in the number of new coronavirus infections. 'I’m not convinced we’re going to have a notable uptick in cases for the virus' among protesters, Meekins said. 'We have weeks of states reopening, and we haven’t seen the surge we expected.'"

Will the protests lead to a spike in coronavirus cases? That depends - MarketWatch