No actually they don't. In fact many of them can't agree with experts in the same organization. Sweden is one for sure, they didn't do 99% of these measures and their numbers are not worse and not what was promised by these 'expert'.
Many 'experts' have had many different theories and numbers that keep changing. Many of the 'experts' you are trusting had very high estimates based on one report from cover up China. And some are still using that data to make these claims. That is not science that is fear or promoting fear for gain. Many are taking their Que for the WHO for fear of being wrong.
Have you noted the media is always taking about what the 'experts' are estimating. When the peak will hit and how that keeps changing. Or how bad this could be. Yet we are four months into this 'outbreak' with the Chinese are saying 7 million travelers traveled from the infected zone in Jan alone. Yet we have:
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4 months in:
136,785 US Cases per the report on Bing.
712,995 Worldwide Reported Cases
33,599 Worldwide Attributed Deaths
150,881 Worldwide Recoveries
7.5 Billion Population of the world
By all accounts the survival rate is 98% to 99%
With most only having mild symptoms.
The 'facts' they are reporting don't back the claims they are selling.
How many bankruptcies and business gone? How many lives economically destroyed?
But all you have to do is look at the numbers and the narratives with a skeptics mind. Then you should have a lot of questions.
I learned a long time ago when government experts and leaders along with the media are all selling panic they are trying something or using something to gain power. Especially, when the sales pitch is, "Do this for the children." Do this for someone else" Or, the one, from now, "Do this for someone's Grandma, you don't want to ******* some one you love or your neighbors Grandma."
You'll need to back up your assertion that experts don't agree with more substance. The example you give, Sweden, is not an example of experts at odds with other experts. Instead, it is an example of a country which hadn't felt the need to impose more 'draconian' measures as soon as other countries because its economic model and employee rights regime allows for extensive homeworking - a strategy that the Swedish government has been encouraging employers to implement. Up to 90% of businesses in the capital have managed to achieve staff home working. Added to this the fact that Swedes trust their public health system and are adhering voluntarily to guidelines designed to beat the epidemic. We're taking about a country very unlike the USA. In short.
It is disingenuous of you to suggest that they 'don't agree with experts'. They very much do. Speaking after banning public gatherings from today, the Swedish pm: "No one is alone in this crisis, but each person has a heavy responsibility." So, yes, Swedish experts and government are taking it seriously and in days to come out is likely that the measures they take will get more severe.
Of course, not all epidemiologists are in agreement regarding forecasting, but mainly because the data is incomplete and therefore the numbers that are put in the models are unreliable. For example, no country on earth is testing everyone. You can't trust China's results, but neither can you trust the UK's, USA's or German's. Not because they are 'cooking the books', but because the tests are in short supply and the effort is focused on treating the ill. The UK, from quite early on decided that measures to slow the spread were more important than testing everyone at that moment in time.
Add to this the fact that people have the virus and are asymptomatic so you might as well ignore all the stats apart from deaths? No, because different health systems attribute deaths in different ways. Not all hospitals and doctors are calling them covid19 deaths.
In short, the data is unreliable.
You cannot say, 'We are 4 months into this outbreak', because the outbreak is reaching different areas at different times. It is more advanced in London than it is in Wales and more advanced in NY than it is in Idaho. With good social distancing it may not ever get so bad in Idaho, but ignoring the advice from health professionals is just plain stupid and says more about the ignorer than the health professional.
So, Wuhan might be four months into the outbreak, but it hasn't even arrived in some areas yet.
The facts you quote over the recovery rates are not secret. Anyone with half a brain has been following the progress of this virus for months. I first read about it in the first week of January. Myself and others I know isolated our elderly a month ago. I haven't seen my dad for weeks as he has breathing problems. But the 99 - 98% recovery rate you quote makes this virus between 10 and 20 times more deadly than the flu. That's YOUR data.
The only reason we're not seeing millions dead is that it was reported to the WHO on December 31st by China and it was acted upon by governments across the world. USA was notably slow in responding. We were already effectively isolated voluntarily and were planning for a major healthcare crisis whilst the US president was calling it the flu and laughing it off. Pretty much every country on earth has imposed restrictions, unprecedented. But you feel that it is because they've been 'sold' something and are damaging their own economies because they're not as smart as you. You can see through the hoax can't you. You're like the president of Belarus, who thinks they can beat the virus with vodka and saunas.
Well, what's happened in the last 24 hours in the US? Well your numbers are up and suddenly you're not contemplating being opened for business by Easter. Remember that? No, now your looking at the END of April, AT LEAST. In fact, you're hoping for early June. It won't be early June. We'll be lucky if things are approaching normal by September.
You sound paranoid about the press. That's because your president doesn't trust the press and that's rubbed off on you. HE doesn't like the press, because he's thin skinned and narcissistic and hates being criticised. He's done a job on folks like you.
Darwinism will sort this out. Ignore the virus at your will. I just hope you don't ******* too many people with ignorance.
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