This isn't cautious mitch, it's full blown panic.  There's been nothing cautious about any of this.  It's been knee-jerk reaction after knee-jerk reaction.  Caution isn't letting emotion make decisions.  Caution isn't creating fear and panic in response to something you don't understand. 

Caution is protecting those most at risk.  Why aren't nursing homes and hospitals on lockdown in regards to visitors?  Those are the people at risk.  Has anyone not elderly or with a severe health issue died or had serious complications?  To most of the population, this is a severe upper-respiratory thing that will go away.  Caution is taking a consistent approach rather than one that's all over the place.  Can't go on a cruise, but my brother that just got off of a cruise can fly home?  There's absolutely zero logic to any of this.

When fear and panic control your decision making, it's not going to end well.  It's not caution to shut the world down when so few are at risk from something.  It's irresponsible.  Far, far, FAR more people are being hurt by the response to this than the virus itself and that is an absolute fact nobody not in complete denial can even try to debate.

Without getting political, the biggest issue with how this has been handled is the seemingly shotgun or dartboard solutioning.  There's a specific demographic that seems to be most at risk and that is the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.  I'm still waiting for the decisions to protect those people. 

Right now I cannot get on a cruise ship, which is fine.  A lot of passengers are elderly and it's a lot of at risk people in a small area.  Let's minimize that until we have a better handle on things.  What I can do though is sit in an airport with far more people than get on a cruise ship, fly across the country, walk through another airport with a different group of far more people than a cruise ship, and walk into a hospital or nursing home with actual at risk people with no questions asked.  There's no logic to the decisions being made.  It's like a dam is about to burst and someone is patching little holes with rubber cement.  People/companies are making irrational, knee-jerk reactions out of fear.  And the fear isn't that someone will die, it's that they will face public lashings for not giving into the fear mongering when someone does. 

I'm not keeping up with the death toll...I think CNN said 40ish yesterday total in the US.  Most of those were in one nursing home if I remember correctly.  You know...the at risk population huddled in small locations that anyone can walk into not showing symptoms of the illness because for many people this is such a non-issue if they get it.  This whole thing is being handled backwards and it's all because of fear of public perception and not at all by the actual situation. 

If we end up with Italian numbers, it's going to be because poor decisions were made along the way for the wrong reasons.  Stores were out of silly things like TP.  Whatever.  Now stores are running out of food because irresponsible outlets are telling people to be prepared for weeks of isolation.  If people think the healthcare system isn't prepared if there is an influx of people in the small population that could get serious illness from this, what in the world would make them think that retail could handle a run on food from the entire population?  Even people like me that think this is ridiculous and completely out of control have to wonder if we need to go buy food because other people are idiots...

Well we're even on one thing at least. 

You're incapable of having a discussion.  Anyone that doesn't agree with you 100% is wrong and you go out of your way as I just proved to discredit them with lies and deceit.   

If you want to engage in discussion,  take the panties off and be a big boy.  If you don't,  crawl back into your hole again and disappear.  Every time you lie about anything I said I am going to pound on you.  Every time.  With no sports due to irrational panic, I have plenty of time to do that. If you don't care about my opinion, you have no reason to make shit up about me.

I can't listen to trump...he's a buffoon.