But you're not looking at the bigger picture. Yes there are worse diseases, but the hospitals only have so many beds. Even with social distancing and such, it will still overwhelm our hospital capacity. We aren't fight a WW2 enemy. We're not fighting in a desert. We're not fighting in a southeast Asia jungle. We're fighting a virus that we have no data on, and the virus itself is changing more rapidly than any other virus we've seen.
The problem is those worse disease are still out there and if the hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, they won't have the ability to care for people who truly need treatment for those worse diseases.
We're doing this not to cower from the disease, but to fight it head on. The way to do that is isolation. If China had taken this disease this seriously, we wouldn't be in this fix. You can't look at the numbers today. Those people were infected 2 weeks ago. The spike is coming.
This is is far worse than the flu. At least we have a way to make vaccines for the the "regular" flu. We have zero infrastructure for this.
People don't understand how fast the disease changed from the time it got on the plane in China to the time it got off the plane in Italy. It was a different disease at that point. This is already worse than the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak.
This disease doesn't behave like the other flu viruses. It attacks the lungs, liver and heart. It isn't just a respiratory disease like the flu. It's far worse, and it's mutating at a pace we haven't seen before.
We're not panicking. This is a clear and calculated decision. Look at the news conference. Trust me Alabama is as conservative as it gets. Check out the news conference the data doesn't lie: City of Tuscaloosa – Government - Mayor Walt Maddox holds a press conference to discuss local efforts regarding COVID-19 | Facebook