87% of all statistics are pulled out of somebody's bum.
OTOH, I don't know what the quarantine situation is up there; this thing is, in fact, exponential, so if people are still crowding into bars, churches, whathaveyou it will get loose, and the results will be disastrous, as New York is finding out just about now. But still. Scaremongering *is* a thing, and it's not good for anybody but the fat cats selling it. Grrr.
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Date: 2020-04-04 02:58 pm (UTC)OTOH, I don't know what the quarantine situation is up there; this thing is, in fact, exponential, so if people are still crowding into bars, churches, whathaveyou it will get loose, and the results will be disastrous, as New York is finding out just about now. But still. Scaremongering *is* a thing, and it's not good for anybody but the fat cats selling it. Grrr.