09-17-2020, 09:16 AM
(09-16-2020, 10:08 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The thing I wonder is how long it will take to get 65% of the population infected. If we are already around 200,000 dead, how long does it take to get to 6 million and herd immunity? If we assume that Biden will win in November and take power in February, assuming Trump is striving to kill as many people as he can in the meantime, and continues to do so until February of 2021, how many people will Trump kill before a sane scientific approach gets implemented?
I personally am not too worried about it. It seems like most of the people he is killing live on Earth Two, lacking masks, not distancing, attending super spreader events, opening schools and the rest. Me, I am staying properly isolated. It seems to be more their problem. Will the herd immunity formation be impeded by those stubborn blue people living in blue states taking all sorts of isolation precautions? How much will it take for the red people to wise up? How many careful blue folks will be murdered by carefree no precaution reds?
I live in Earth Two. Being responsible and surviving is doable here too -- it's just hard. I've shunned basic masking for N95s, which look intimidating and get mocked, but whatever. We have a long developed circle of acquaintances (I would have used the term friends a few months ago, but maybe not now). What makes it harder is the low prevalence of the disease here, which is also its most redeeming feature. We'll do very well until we don't.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.