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People look at the thousands of deaths in China and Italy and may think this is an overreaction.

What they don't realize is that those figures are the result of tough lockdowns, without which, the death toll would've been easier an order of magnitude greater.

California has shown true leadership in this crisis. I hope New York and Washington will soon follow.

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Not sure how anyone can look at hundreds of additional daily deaths and think it's fine and business as usual.

The top comment above, for example. I think people are generally terrible at understanding exponential growth & systemic vs. one-off risk.

Looking at the last few days, NY's cases are going up scarily fast. WA seems to have "almost" flattened the curve.

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