Name:   architect - Subject:   Maybe it is overblown Date:   3/8/2020 10:12:52 AM (updated 3/8/2020 10:28:24 AM)

but maybe not.  do you want to gamble the lives of yourself and those you love in the cassino of political talking points?  Almost every year we have a situation of mandatory evacuations from the projected paths of hurricanes.  Often it proves unnecessary and everybody bitches and moans except when they don't because the evacuation saved their lives!  This ''crisis'' is real whether Trump likes it or not!  We have gone from less tha 60 infected to almost 500 and one death to 19 in less than 10 days...extrapolate that to 2 or 3 months at the same rate of infection and tell me it is a damned ''hoax''!  Yes, Hound the flue has infected many more, but remember the flue also starts with the first few and the flue, which eventually effects tens of millions, kills tens of thousands.  If this thing ever spreads to tens of millions with a death rate even in the lowest range of forecast it will result in millions of fatalities in the US alone.

So, if you want to follow the Trump talking points rather than medical science and call this a ''hoax'' go ahead, but be aware that by doing so you may be condemning many more to sickness and even death than if we all believed and followed the advice of the medical experts rather than a puffed up self-serving politician!