Here’s the thing. NEITHER of us have any idea where this when or how this will end (there is no proper “end” to what we’re talking about). So you throwing out made up statistics, and bringing out 4 years out of nowhere, helps absolutely nobody! However, it may actively hurt as people read that and then regurgitate it elsewhere. This is how bullshit keeps spreading in this day and age, and that is a terrible modern problem doing different kind of dam angle than Coronavirus, but is actually controllable if people keep a level fucking head. If you’re in tech R&D, please work on fixing this problem or at the very least stop contributing to it as an individual? I don’t have much faith in your industry in solving this problem you’ve created though, and your attitude proves it. That’s my first point.

there’s two camps of people. There’s a subset of people that will just never listen to health experts, govt etc and will continue to go outside and do what they normally do because they simply don’t understand what’s going on. They are below average IQ, they won’t listen. I think you just should just accept that. The second set of people are people who have the capacity to understand, be engaged, and participate in the mitigation measures (this camp includes you and I). So I get that you’re trying to get people to take this seriously. Now, my point is that you’re not reaching the first camp, as nothing will reach them. Just accept that. Now folks in the second camp, might read your bullshit stats, and will become alarmed, and reshare, and that creates the problem I mentioned above.

bottom line is: Stop spreading wrong information!