Please take care, God bless you and keep you all safe.

Praying for you and everyone affected by this virus. Please stay safe and let's hope that medical professionals can develop a vaccine and get this under control as soon as possible. <3

Sending you love from Louisiana! Hope you stay healthy <3

Unfortunately Italy has an older population, which has contributed greatly to their numbers. We should all be conscious of the spread and helping each other out, but here we go again with the inhumanity and selfishness that many humans are made out of.

Me too. But his virus came from China to Germany and from Germany to Italy :-(

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You're right, and this happens everywhere. It's like everyone is 15 again and, if the government tells you NOT to do something, you suddenly feel the urge to DO it instead. People need to grow up.

I also live there, and in addition To what you were saying, our government wants us locked up at home buuuuut you can go to work (and ordered only 1/3 of public transport available, you can imagine the tight crowds getting in the subway) get infected in your office and so on. And (and I sh&t you not) you can go to buy cigarettes, walk your pet out, and till recently, get your hair done. Really. I see two ways here, China way (real quarantine) or UK way (we give up). Anything else is useless and futile! Keep safe and good luck everyone.

I disagree about the reckless part, people in my country actually help each other a lot, the problem is somewhere else: the government isn't telling the truth. They say it's not so bad, it is not going to happen. But people already feel that it is, and then what wasn't supposed to happen happens. So when the government then tells people not to travel because everything is taken care of and fine they do because they lost trust and now don't believe the government anymore, they feel they have to take care for themselves. This is what happened in my country: people wanted to get testet, felt the virus is here, felt things have to be done. But the government insisted everything is fine and no action is needed because it would hurt the economy. So people paid private companies for their tests - and they were positive. Yet the government did not react to this until it was too late, now only slowly the trust is restored.

That is terrible. You are all in my prayers.

Stores need to take control of that hoarding. Anyone working at a store where they see someone buying unusual amounts of something and doesn't stop them is straight up immoral.

Worry solves nothing. Just follow CDC advice and #StaytheFHome. Don't take one extra unnecessary step off your property until this passes. When you leave to buy groceries or pick up meds at the pharmacy, don't touch your face until you've washed your hands for 20 seconds w/ soap & water. Nowhere does it say to hoard toilet paper OR have a panic attack. Americans are notoriously bad at navigating the middle ground between extreme apathy & hysterical panic. The AIDS crisis illustrated this. Let's not have a repeat of that. Health trumps finances, economics & work right now. The sooner we follow the guidelines the sooner we can drop them.

Stay strong my fellow Washingtonian. My brother works at the Everett Plant of Boeing where one of the assembly line workers was diagnosed. My brother wasn't exposed, but things are getting crazy up there. Got a friend that lives on Whidbey that is panicking that her elderly parents will be exposed. These little arrogant f***ers that are ignoring advise and running amok need to be arrested and jailed until the quarantine is over so the rest of us can stay safe. My husband said "That martial law." I said "Yep..and that might be what it will take to get the idiots under control!"

Not My state. At least not my area. I'm in Southwest Virginia and can tell you most people here think the world is vastly overreacting. I'm waiting for it to hit us here because no one is taking precautions to minimize risk and it's scary.

SO MANY are still not taking this seriously. I work at an American Legion, and people are still coming in, eating and drinking, and laughing at the others who are concerned enough to take precautions. They’re still insisting it’s all a political ploy engineered by the democrats to thwart Trump’s reelection bid.

Eastern half is for sure taking it deadly serious. Tri Cities area is beginning to be hit .

The morons in FL aren't taking this seriously!! They are put partying and gathering in large groups on the beach!! They will then go home and spread the virus to everyone!!

Trump isn’t taking it serious!!!!

Sadly, I have Facebook contacts who are still going out to bars & posting conspiracy disinformation daily. I'm reporting every last one of their dangerous posts but there's no fixing stupid. This is the kind of behavior that will get us all put under mandatory curfew/Marshal Law/quarantine.

I mostly agree with you, and this well-put. Being 52, I would argue with one thing: "humanity is absolutely declining". I think the fact that many, many people IMMEDIATELY see the harm in hoarding and price gouging now means that humanity does learn some things. 200 years ago, there might have been a much larger percentage of a population that didn't think anything of that. This is not to say that there aren't issues with humanity that are getting worse over time. But actually, some things have gotten better.

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Same here in Australia. We know we have community spreading but they aren’t testing anyone unless they’ve been overseas and showing symptoms or in close contact with someone who tested positive. Many more cases walking around that we don’t know about. Everyone needs to be careful

Exactly. As I said above, there have been pandemics in recent history as bad as this-- 1957 Asian Flu (H2N2) for example and the 1978 Hong Kong Flu, where there were also no vaccines and people died, but the world got through it. They didn't panic buy the whole freaking store, they didn't hoard toilet paper or buy out guns. Obviously they didn't travel as much as now, but I'm not sure how much travel they even restricted back then. We are in a much better position than 50 years ago, more technology, more awareness, etc, and yet people are collectively losing their minds. Yes, prevention and mitigation is key, obviously we can't be irresponsible but emotive statements like " You Have No Idea What's Coming" don't help. Moreover, yes we do-- it happened in history, and they got through it and we'll get through it too. Just freaking isolate and wash your hands and surfaces etc.

These are reported cases. i.e. People who got lab tested or be in the ICU etc. The thing with Italy is that anyone with feverish symptoms was tested for COVID19 immediately which is why their cases were higher. This is not the case in Russia or India, and even here. There may be more cases than reported. For example-- I am in Australia and just before the travel bans, a friend of a friend from Italy came (about 4 weeks ago). They had no symptoms of any illness and left comfortably (again just before the travel bans). Well, the people she stayed with got a really bad flu two weeks ago. We isolated ourselves from them, and they went to the doctor. Doctor told them it was likely 'just a cold' because the lady from Italy was fine etc. Both friends recovered. But we now know there are asymptomatic carriers. So was it COVID19? Who knows, they were never lab tested, and we'll never know because they don't test healthy people for antibodies. Who knows how many unreported cases there are?

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Whatever source you have for your info, you need a better one. This virus went all over Asia and then all over Europe and probably the US, too (Noone gets tested there, so who knows.) Northern Italy was hit first due to close trading connections with China, but it has spread all over.