Pops wrote:
The virus is real.
That`s progress Pops.
When Costa Ricans were doing so well, piling on buses, no masks, etc. with only ten or so deaths you thought it was all a scam. And that`s understandable given your frame of reference, what you saw day to day at the time.
This thing may or may not be any more contagious than the flu but it wreaks a lot more havoc. The flu doesn`t cause bodies to spill out into the streets en mass like we`ve seen in places like Peru, NYC, Italy, and now Houston. It doesn`t stretch hospitial ICUs to the limit like we see in many areas of Florida now. It doesn`t cause damage to any degree like has been observed with Covid, brain, lungs, heart and kidneys. The flu also doesn`t kill 200,000 Americans in a season, and that`s likely where we`ll get by November. A typical flu season is in the 12 to 30K range with 60K a very bad year. And it`s not just oldsters on their last legs that Covid kills. Here`s the demographics of deaths by age, and it includes plenty of the 54 and under crowd.
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-C ... /9bhg-hckuSo what would be the plan? Stop all this and get everything back to normal, right? What if the people didn`t cooperate? I know I have no interest in hanging out in crowded bars and restaurants. You can remove the restrictions, but if a good portion of the people don`t take the ball and run with it then you still have a problem. Trump found that out in Tulsa as he stared at mostly empty seats. You said rightly that Ch*ldren often spread the disease to family members. This plan involves sending them maskless back to school I assume, then many come home to extended family households...
This has been tried already by the way, in Sweden. They are currently pushing 6000 deaths. Their Nordic neighbors, Norway, Denmark, and Finand, all whom construct their societies in a similar way are at around 500. And even after all that Sweden is only about 10% of the way toward herd immunity. This approach, though very popular in monger forums is rejected by virtually the entire medical and scientific community, and most people generally. I think that`s good.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 472100002/Of course the goal is to take certain precautions, run economies as best we can, which gives us time to work on effective treatments and a vaccine. The world is working overtime on this. Kudos to guys like Bill Gates investing his own time and money.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/when-will-c ... a-vaccine/I`m also impressed by the ability of many Latin Americans to literally live on fumes. They are well aquainted with poverty, and often have a strong sense of faith, family and community. Some of my Facebook friends have actually been getting noticably fatter recently.
So with that I`m just going to toss the ball and maybe you all can have a good discussion. I`m piled up with work but may join back in later. Feel free to talk about suicide increases, but demand evidence that there actually has been a significant uptick in that beyond any normal increases. Bring on the idea that governments around the world are faking the death numbers for money. That`s even though the numbers are drastically declining in many part of the world, especially Western Europe and some areas of the US like New York. Did these governments suddenly get tired of the easy money and decide to jump out of the global conspiracy? Or what about all images of bodies spilling out into the streets and into temporay morgues/refrigerated trucks? Or all the overwhelmed ER docs on the news pleading with the public to take precautions. Staged, like the Moon Landing Hoax? Or the vaccine, Bill Gates conspiracy to inject us all with a chip to set up the New World Order? Be my guest, that, and also Bigfoot, Area 51, and by all means alien abductions, it`s all fair game.
One last thought: If there are people there will always be economies. Economies recover. Dead people dont, ever.