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Apr 2, 2020 | 12:34 pm

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Originally Posted by A318neo

I disagree in part because by September, there will still be people dying. Restrictions are like gas station prices. With gas prices, they shoot up when the price of oil goes up but are slower to drop when the price of oil drops.

The thing with dying will be the rate of new cases and new deaths. US and most of the Western world has implemented social distancing and other items. Assuming this we can turn the curve as many hope in 4 weeks and peak # of deaths ( can't believe we say it like that ).

I suspect the Southern Hemisphere will be moving into fall/winter and we should assume Brazil and Africa will become the exploding case. Hard to believe we won't implement very restrictive motions and travel by country we managed each individually.