This is just sorta acknowledging the practical aspects of things. There
won't be enough resources to treat them anyway, so might as well just
let it burn out.
I sent links to 2 podcasts, I am listening to the first one now. Scary
stuff but reality. The virologist suggests that a 1-2% fatality rate
(much higher now in Italy) would result in 100-150mil deaths on the
planet as this thing keeps spreading.
--FT
On 3/16/20 4:59 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote:
The Britt approach sounded nuts until I remembered that's exactly what we
did with measles when I was a kid. There was no immunization for measles
(and most other things except smallpox) then and the measles was much worse
for adults. So it was considered a good thing for the kids to swap measles
germs, even though they put quarantine signs on the door. Polio, not so
much.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Knoble via Mercedes
...
BTW, Britain is following the exact opposite tack (tac?) They are letting
the virus go uninhibited, so that they can get a "herd immunity" and not
have annual outbreaks every year. Time will tell.
Rick
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ok y'all **it just got real
I'm still trying to get my head around the reason for the extreme reactions
to COVID-19 vs. H1N1 back in 2009.
Here in the US of A, H1N1 Swine flu caused 60.8 million illnesses, 273,304
hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths. Over 200,000 probably died worldwide.
Does anyone remember sealing off our borders, cancellation of all sporting
events and concerts, stock market crash?
The H1N1 flu primarily affected children and adults under 65. COVID-19
affects the almost the mirror image, those above 70; or those with
underlying health conditions. Which age group is more important to our
economy? No judgement here, but I'll bet that most economists would say
that deaths and illness among the working age and future working age
populations will have a greater impact on GDP than those retired in their
70s - 80s - 90s. No stock market crash, no panic. Barrack Hussein Obama
was playing golf on the day his admin declared a national emergency.
Congress under Democrat control was focused on passing Obama-care.
China, where they completely botched their initial reaction by hiding the
evidence and ignoring the threat for 2 or 3 months, allowing it to spread
far and wide not only in their country but across the globe, has only lost a
couple thousand people (if you believe their numbers) and the number of new
cases is leveling off. America is in a much stronger position than China,
why the hell are we in such a panic?
I think we are being played.
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Max
Charleston SC
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