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Originally Posted by Charu

Surprised Michigan hasn't joined in the lockdown like some other states are employing.

Yesterday our governor came back on and ordered a closure to some more businesses, but everyone is still free to go wherever they wish if they follow social distancing.

Today, we just reached over 1000 cases. Admittedly it's due to the tests being perform much faster than before, but it is a very alarming number that hasn't stopped growing.

Country-wide, we've already tallied over 14,000 new cases today alone. It's not even clear if we're starting to hit that upward peak that data modelling from statisticians/scientists have produced.

The healthcare system in the US is already straining as it is, as seen with the unending cries of help for hospital essentials. It's going to get scary, fast. And the rate of which things increase will substantially increase until a national lockdown happens.

Something that people who say "it's overblown" are failing to understand: as this is a day-to-day environment that is continuing to change and suppression techniques to keep people in place are going to seem extreme. If over the course of months, it continues to seem like it's overblown, it's because the techniques being used to mitigate the spread are working.