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expressVPN.com slash Ben. Okay, so we've got some good news. We've got some bad news this morning.

The bad news is that not much has changed in terms of our knowledge level about coronavirus.

There is still a lot of vagueness as far as what we know and what we do not know.

We do know that the death rates from actual infection of coronavirus

are significantly lower than originally proposed. They're not 3%, they're not 4%, they are well under 1%. The question is how far under because each 0.1 is a multiple of the flu. So if it's 0.1, that's the same as the flu. Point 2 is double the flu. Point 2 is double the flu. Point 3 is triple the flu and so on. In all likelihood, what we're looking at somewhere between point three and point six, which is at least three to six times as deadly as the flu, plus this thing spreads three times as fast as the flu, which means that you're going to end up with a multiple of deaths, absent social distancing. And that is what the models are beginning to show today, is that as people consider reopening, there will be additional deaths. Now, people are using

this as an excuse to suggest that we have to remain shut down forever. But this is the reality of

life if we stay locked up in our homes. For any reason, rates of flu deaths will go down. Any

communicable disease will go down. Rates of herpes will go down. Any disease that is communicated

by people being in close contact with one another will go down

when you are at home. On the other hand, things like heart disease or cancer, those are really not going to change very much, and you're not going to be able to get your treatment if you are at home. But the communicable diseases are always going to go down when you keep people at home. Car accident deaths are going to go down. There are just certain things that are going to go down. So recognizing that disease continues to exist in our society and that we are going to go out of our

houses, that means that there will be additional deaths. The question is, how many additional deaths? So there are new models out today trying to describe how many new deaths will be created by people going out. And this is hard to model because we don't know the extent to which people are actually going to social distance. Now, I have a lot of faith in the American people. I think that most people are smart and risk-averse enough to say six feet away from each other to wear masks in public places. I don't think that people are going to be going out en masse to ACDC concerts and Macing. I just don't think that's what's going to happen here, a very 90s language here.

But I think that is unlikely.

I think most people are interested in social distancing.

Most people recognize that the risk still remains.

According to the CDC, state level forecasts very widely reflecting differences in early

epidemic phases, timing of interventions, and model-specific

assumptions. According to the CDC, models that factor in strong contact reduction suggest new deaths

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