Originally Posted by 260Remguy
As of today, 04/01/20, the Omaha World Herald newspaper is reporting that projection are for 442 people in Nebraska may die from COVID-19.

In round numbers, 500 death from a population of 1,929,000 people is 0.0259% or 1 death out of every 3,858.

If those ratios are applied to the 330,000,000 U.S. citizens, we could expect around 86,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Since COVID-19 seems to be more deadly for the old and those who have underlying health problems, some subset of that group of 86,000 would die from other causes.

What doesn't kill you can make you stronger if you'er willing to embrace change. But how much are we will to pay in terms of dollars and loss of local control to feel protected by the Federal bureaucracy out of WDC?

I heard people talking about Federalizing healthcare and unemployment insurance, pointing to Germany as a model. So many people seem to expect "The Feds" to have all the answers when they are in trouble, but when they aren't in trouble they want local control and freedom of choice. Can't have it both ways.

Or so it seems to me.


Yes and a HUGE problem is people don't listen to suggestions to start with. I'd like to think that .gov gave out suggestions how to minimize this and basically all the liberals laughed and kept on. They kill themselves literally. When we have socialism and communism they will complain but they will have done it to themselves.

IF they had listened and used sense you could have kept it better than it is all the while keeping things open.

I'm not for big brother at all, OTOH what if they didn't take steps? Numbers of dead would be much higher. Not that a thinning of the population is a bad thing but people just don't take things seriously.

I am one that said this is going to be here a while. Its going to be somewhat worse than the flu. But its not the end of the world and we will get by...

Once again there isn't an easy answer as to many rely on .gov by now.. for EVERYTHING. Including their damn thinking.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....