ITALY IS NOT THE US. REPEAT: ITALY IS NOT THE US:  Distinguishing factors.

But note even in Italy, a country that hugs, smokes, and uses public transportation, the average age of the victims of the Chinese Flu is 80 or so.

My question is: What are we doing to protect those populations?  Well, not much. Sure, we closed care centers to visitors, but we still allow the nurses to go in and out, and a lot of those people have small kids who are in daycare.  As for the elders being cared for by family? Well, a lot of them still have essential doctors’ appointments as do their families.
What is the quarantine doing?  It is destroying the economy. It is doing that with amazing efficiency.

At which point do we ask ourselves what the INTENDED effect is?