Objectively intelligent.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

According to the latest figures, Italy has 59,138 who have tested positive, and 5,476 who have died. That yields a mortality rate of about 9%, in a country with a modern healthcare system. If you don't try to protect the healthcare system by slowing the disease, the mortality rate goes up because it's not possible to treat people who are really sick.

No doubt.

Also, whether the rate is 2.5% or 9%, the idea of doing that kind of cost-benefit analysis goes out the window when it's people you know. I have elderly relatives who are posting on Facebook that this is all some kind of suspicious hoax. They are going to change their tune before too long.

Of course, that's where the human part of our brains kick in. My folks are in their 70s and are not taking this as seriously as they should (and they can't stand Trump so I still love them).

But WOPR from War Games would probably say that the costs outweigh the benefits.