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Covid-19 Coronavirus Finally Getting Coverage In The Mainstream Media: The Rapidly-Increasing Severity Of The Situation And A Few Things You Can Do About It
The New York Times has launched and maintained an article documenting the spread of Covid-19 through the United States, and things aren’t looking good. In this article, I will attempt to interpret the various sources and offer the reader my views on the situation up to and including the various precautions I am personally taking and why, but to be entirely clear the goal is to show possible outcomes and some of that may seem a bit alarmist to some readers. Just to get everything out in the open up front, there is a very good reason to be alarmed. I do not intend to further the CDC’s newly minted tradition of minimizing everything to the greatest extent possible and in fact I believe this is a dishonest strategy which will serve us badly as a nation if we allow it to continue.
In fact, if you want to read about how “low” the odds of your contracting the Covid-19 Coronavirus are, then I’m going to go ahead and suggest that you read something else and perhaps come back to this article when you’re more inclined to face reality because the rumor mill has been extremely active and there seems to be a great deal of support for the thesis that Covid-19 cases are going to ramp up extremely…
