[zanny]

Projected before any response. That was pre-lockdown. That was at a time where there were no tests because the CDC botched trying to manufacture their own. If business as usual carried on since mid March we could have seen those numbers realized.

That is the ultimate joke in all this - if expertise is correct and mitigates the virus and prevents the worst case scenario agendas will push rhetoric that they were exaggerated estimates and overblew the situation. And they can say that with confidence knowing any worst case scenario was avoided.