Who/When/Why did it start?

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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leadin ... -death.htm
Here is the link. or you can Just go to CDC.gov and search for causes of death.
This is not denial that Covid 19 is real but perspective needs to be taken as this is being blown up to hysterical heights by the media and governments.

We're not "all doomed." I'm certainly not in "panic mode." I'm back at my job. I take precautions, even though I already had COVID back in March. We have to take action on the resurgence of COVID in the present.

As for New York: The hospitals were filling up in April. We had to have the federal government deploy a hospital ship to NY Harbor. We had beds made up in a big convention center. Hotels were asked to lend out their rooms for the homeless and for potential COVID patients.

It's not like that in NYC now----but if we're not careful, it could very be "like that." It's not "like that" because we took stringent measures.

I've ran out of panic mode in April.
Things are bad, at least in my city, overwhelming of the healthcare system is only starting now, but panic won't help.
I wash my hands more than I would normally. I wear a face mask. I avoid public transport. I stay at home even with minor cold. I may cancel my plans to visit older family members in person.

There is quite a lot of space between "it's a hoax" and "we're all doomed". How about "it's a problem to deal with"?

I believe Trump started it, he actually said how it was being handled was a hoax and it got taken out of context to mean he was calling the virus a hoax. He didn't. He just downplayed it and admitted it months later because "he didn't want to cause a panic." I watched him say it live about it being a hoax. Watching his speech on the virus made me hate him more and think less of people who are still supporting him after that speech.

That Worldometer is just very scarey ....... USA has big lead in numbers of coronavirus

Trump was lucky the doctors were right on it.

When I had COVID, all the doctors told me to do was to stay home, drink plenty of fluids, take lots of Tylenol, and only call if I have such trouble breathing that I can't move a muscle without having trouble breathing. And don't call them.....go straight to the emergency room.

And I understood why. There were many more much more seriously ill people that they had to take care of. NYC had about 25,000 deaths by April.

It started as soon as covid started. It became yet another thing to be denied by the anti-science right bc it is electorally and ideologically inconvenient.
It would not have been nearly as bad as if, for example, it was Romney in the White House, and not the thin-skinned, conspiracy-peddling, egomaniacal moron we have today.