You’re buying into this narrative that the US is two weeks behind Italy? Based on what?
There are 3,405 dead in Italy from a population of 60.5 million. If you are correct there will be 18,573 dead in the US in two weeks. My prediction is there will be a few thousand dead.
Tell you what, if you are right and when all this is over and hopefully we both survive, I will meet you in Limerick and buy you whatever number of pints are needed for you to fall over.
A more realistic outcome than death is that you won’t be fit to run a marathon ever again because your lungs are destroyed. That’s a very plausible scenario.
I hope I’m wrong mate. But I’d be very worried that the US is a potent combination of ignorance, fear due to lack of social protections and a healthcare system that people are afraid to use
You (and others) are underestimating the resources the US have to throw at this. If the entire military has to be thrown at this effort it will be done.