What no one seems to comprehend, or perhaps are intentionally ignoring for various reasons, is that all those lines end up in the same place.
You can’t run and hide from a virus. It won’t stop until we reach herd immunity and it has no one else to easily transmit to. That doesn’t happen until enough people get it. So either get it now or get it later, doesn’t really matter except in regards to hospital capacity.
Numbers are already going down in Florida just like they did everywhere else. These same spikes will happen everywhere until each respective area reaches herd immunity.
Cloth masks are a joke and are just a placebo to make idiots feel better. The truth is there is nothing anyone in the government can do because the cure would be worse than the solution. But people are children these days and can’t handle the truth. So instead we get the overreaching idiocy that we’re experiencing now.
We have BINGO.
I have a Wildlife Biology degree, have taken microbiology/virology courses. Some coronaviruses cause the common cold. This is like trying to stop the common cold. It ain't happening. You can't quarantine/social distance indefinitely. This may explain the recent increases in countries that seemed to have things under control.
What we have is an extremely virulent strain of the flu (highly contagious and acute symptoms).
Flattening the curve is exactly what it says...spreading out the infection rate. The main advantage is to not overwhelm health care facilities. Basically, the same amount of people will get infected.
Sorry to sound callus or morbid.
I had originally thought that COVID was no different from the regular flu, only more infectious. This is what I found after doing a little research.
Lets compare COVID 19 to the common flu (Influenza A and B):
Infection rate: Flu...8% COVID...50 to 80% (according to CDC)
Mortality rate: Flu...0.1% COVID...0.6%.
The flu numbers are pretty sound based on past results.
COVID is difficult to quantify at this time and the numbers are pretty shaky.
The main issues are the large number of people infected that are asymptomatic and the fact that only hospitalizations and deaths are being recorded at this time.
Source:
How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? | Live Science
Another factor is the lack of a vaccine at this time. Common flu vaccines are readily available at the beginning of each season. That may be the reason the infection rate is so much lower. That and the fact that we have all been exposed to the common flu.
Obviously there is no vaccine for COVID. Hopefully there will be one in the not too distant future.
Some people have an aversion to taking vaccines. I'm not sure why. I haven't looked into it. Personally, the more different antibodies you can develop, the better. Obviously, some of us already have them for COVID.
I mention the Wildlife Biology degree to point out that there is a term known as "Contact Density". This is most commonly used in reference to varying hare (rabbit) populations. They are on a 10 year cycle. The populations increase in an area until they get to contact density. In other words, they then come in contact often enough at peak population to transmit parasites and diseases where the population crashes and the 10 year cycle begins again at the bottom.
Rant Alert:
I fear that world populations (human) are at "Contact Density".
My coworker and I were discussing just this last winter...that one of our biggest concerns was an incurable disease would outbreak and with increased travel it would circulate quickly.
Fortunately for us, COVID is not incurable and there will be a vaccine soon.
2nd Rant Alert:
I also worked in alternative medicine and mentioned this in another thread.
In Europe and available in the States is Ozone Therapy to combat COVID. Basically, you super oxygenate your blood with ozone to disable the virus's attachment mechanism and buy your immune system time to combat the virus.
I'm not quite sure why, but in the other thread, people found this funny.
