Originally Posted by conquestdz

The comparison to flu deaths really baffles me. One of the consistent complaints we all have about Alaska management is that they manage by metrics and can never make a proactive change. No amount of warning will make a difference. They will only change something if it has already cost them money. Comparing flu deaths to COVID 19 deaths is the same thing. Look....only 850 deaths compared to 35000 for the flu, and then ignore trends like it spreading everywhere, horrible death rates in Italy, and doubling every 3 days in New York. It's been so obvious to anyone with a calculator that this has so much more potential to be worse, but just because it hasn't been so far, let's largely ignore it and hope it goes away so we don't have to spend/loose money. That thought process in the early days is why we will end up more like Italy in the next few weeks than South Korea or China.