The Coronavirus

[pbrower2a]

(10-14-2020, 08:34 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(10-14-2020, 04:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(10-14-2020, 02:42 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I gather the White House has officially gone with herd immunity as their official response to the virus.  I guess it goes with their policy of holding super spreader rallies.  MSNBC has been reporting herd immunity as a quack non scientific theory that is equivalent of spreading the virus and causing as many deaths as possible.  If you infect a large enough number of people with the bug to get the desired percentage of people immune, and if the percentage of people dies as has, you get millions of deaths.  Also, if things proceed on the current schedules, the vaccines will be developed and distributed well before the immune level is reached, and the deaths they are causing won't have an effect.  The people would have died for no reason.

But you can't accuse the Republicans of not having a plan anymore.

Hard as the lockdown was in Michigan, I am glad that we had it. Without it we would have gotten COVID-19 far worse

I had never heard of herd immunity before Donald Trump promoted it with such an air of authority. Now that I think about it it would be like exposing oneself to as many rodents (and the fleas upon them) as possible during the Black Death.

And yet said lockdown was the inspiration for a failed kidnapping of the state’s governor. We had the lockdown in Illinois as well. There are those that think it should have lasted a month longer, that if we had it would have been licked. Now it has gotten worse again even though we’re not even into traditional flu season as yet. Prime time for that is not until after the holiday season, usually mid-January through mid-March.

Do get a flu shot if you have not done so already. You do not want to be referred to a hospital out of fear that 'your' influenza is COVID-19, only to be exposed to COVID-19 which is far worse.  

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As people found ways to reduce the risks of COVID-19, such places as bookstores, libraries, boat launches, and golf courses were able to re-open.  Bars have largely shut down and remain so -- but liquor stores remained open. The second wave of the pandemic relates heavily to people trying to return to 3T behavior when such has proved dangerous. The lockdown was piecemeal, reflecting that some state4s locked down and some didn't. 

I don't blame the politicians for the lockdown. I blame the politicians who let COVID-19 get a break -- to kill nearly 220,000 people and still counting.