Originally Posted by Beech Dude

My point being that the numbers have been overblown from the beginning (2.2 mill) and as time passes, its coming out that this is not the deadly awful thing for all of us theyre hyping it to be.
This is a quote from an article last month where I got the 250 from:

538 Article, 23 Mar 20, by Jay Boice
As a group, they think hospitalizations won’t peak for several more weeks or months, and they expect around 246,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in 2020. “The situation this week is no more clear due to the diversity of responses across states, and uncertainty about the impact of those responses,” said Justin Lessler, one of the respondents and an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University.