Magicpaddler wrote on Apr 18^th, 2020 at 11:20am:

Comparing confirmed cases is an even less reliable indicator because if you have not testing you have no confirmed cases.

Massive testing and contact tracing is the way South Korea solved this problem.  Some think we have that capability too but the administration has such shallow thinking to do it because that would just confirm higher numbers.  And well, the higher the number the worse he looks.  Gotta keep those numbers down folks, we got an election soon!  Now get working! 

The administration is working on a bandaid solution.  I get that we need supplies.  But letting people "loose" without a "Prevention Plan" is pure folly.  Look at it like this - when you have an ant problem in the house you sometimes will put out a poison with the hope a few ants bring it back to their house.

In America unlike places like Japan, Germany, South Korea etc. some of our people are careless.  Or "care - less".  I'd call them stupid but let's not get derogatory.  So, we get set loose, all go back to work with the majority being responsible with wearing masks, social distancing, etc.  But here's the thing, there's the careless (ants) who might show no symptoms that go out and bring back the poison to their families. 

Folks, that's all it takes for all of our large cities to look like New York.  I hope I'm wrong but without massive testing and contact tracing this will be our reality come August, September.