03-22-2020, 01:20 PM
(03-22-2020, 08:58 AM)David Horn Wrote: 99% of surviving this is simple, old fashioned commonsense. Understand the basics of disease transmission (the vapor and aerosol due to breathing -- coughing and sneezing even moreso) and surface contamination (assume days not minutes). Then use due-diligence to prevent being a disease vector to others and prevent others infecting you. That's the basis for social distancing, handwashing and the use of sanitizers. Let's also agree that 99% is probably the upper limit of how safe these practices can make us. Perfection is, as always, unachievable.
Be safe out there!
Agreed, but the key thing is the effects of the above, reducing the number of people each infected person in turn effects to less than 1. This is not easy, but it is necessary to keep the situation from exploding exponentially into a saturation disease. This requires stringent efforts.
I saw a Facebook entry saying that people who complain of the stringent response don't seem to realize that the less well they respond, the longer the response would be necessary. Perhaps that will effect the complainers more than the death count?
The alternative is to let a few percent of the world's population die. What is a very small percentage of 7.5 billion.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
