we know social distancing is not a feasible policy in practice
If you'd all just accept New Zealand style lockdowns forever, it would be perfectly feasible. It's all the right-wing crazies screaming about "freedom" making things difficult.
From one case, New-Zealand announced 21 new cases yesterday.
Despite their swift and harsh lockdown.
I don't think anything but forcefully keeping people locked under the threat of expeditive execution, as the military in hazmat suits deliver food, would stop such an extremely contagious airborne virus.
And then you'd have a surprise cluster 6 weeks later from one of those long incubators ( incubation can go over 3 weeks ). By the time it is noticed you lost track of it again and are back under military occupation.
And then it's one of your government's beloved "high value tourist" that had a false negative test contaminating 5 people, leaving, and you only figure the next week when thlse 5 people infected 30 others, half of which you cannot find.
Back under military occupation shutdown.
A virus that is largely harmless to 99% of people and 99.9999...% of children. We are living in the greatest mass hysteria birthed by social media, mainstream media, politicians and "academics" drunk on their new yet unwarranted notoriety and power.
For fuck's sake, jab people who want to and LET IT RIP like England is doing.
60% of kids are already recovered. ( antibody tests found 60% of teens 16-17 had them. They are not routinely vaccinated, thus those are almost all natural infections ).
Normies are in panic and being taken advantage of by fake news and poor leaders. We've gone from "there's nothing to fear but fear itself" to "hide yo kids hide yo wife" with no end in sight.
Someone needs to tell people it's never going to be over until they decide it's over.
For context, Covid is the #1 cause of death among all infectious diseases, in the US. Covid also currently ranks #3 for all causes of death, right behind heart disease and cancer (JAMA, "Leading causes of death in the US for 2020").
I would say that is serious, but there is definitely a lot of hysteria going around as well.
For additional context, here is the USA per capita mortality every year of the past 5 years, which is following the same trend for the decade :
2016 : 8.5 /k
2017 : 8.6 /k
2018 : 8.7 /k
2019 : 8.8 /k
2020 : 8.9 / k
Yes it killed people. Overwhelmingly people who were going to die soon of another of their comorbidities or from another infectious disease that rarely kills anyone that is not two steps from the door out.
That's one lame pandemic, but one hell of a mass hysteria.
If you'd all just accept New Zealand style lockdowns forever, it would be perfectly feasible. It's all the right-wing crazies screaming about "freedom" making things difficult.
From one case, New-Zealand announced 21 new cases yesterday.
Despite their swift and harsh lockdown.
I don't think anything but forcefully keeping people locked under the threat of expeditive execution, as the military in hazmat suits deliver food, would stop such an extremely contagious airborne virus.
And then you'd have a surprise cluster 6 weeks later from one of those long incubators ( incubation can go over 3 weeks ). By the time it is noticed you lost track of it again and are back under military occupation.
And then it's one of your government's beloved "high value tourist" that had a false negative test contaminating 5 people, leaving, and you only figure the next week when thlse 5 people infected 30 others, half of which you cannot find.
Back under military occupation shutdown.
A virus that is largely harmless to 99% of people and 99.9999...% of children. We are living in the greatest mass hysteria birthed by social media, mainstream media, politicians and "academics" drunk on their new yet unwarranted notoriety and power.
For fuck's sake, jab people who want to and LET IT RIP like England is doing.
60% of kids are already recovered. ( antibody tests found 60% of teens 16-17 had them. They are not routinely vaccinated, thus those are almost all natural infections ).
That cat's never going back in the bag.
Normies are in panic and being taken advantage of by fake news and poor leaders. We've gone from "there's nothing to fear but fear itself" to "hide yo kids hide yo wife" with no end in sight.
Someone needs to tell people it's never going to be over until they decide it's over.
For context, Covid is the #1 cause of death among all infectious diseases, in the US. Covid also currently ranks #3 for all causes of death, right behind heart disease and cancer (JAMA, "Leading causes of death in the US for 2020").
I would say that is serious, but there is definitely a lot of hysteria going around as well.
For additional context, here is the USA per capita mortality every year of the past 5 years, which is following the same trend for the decade :
2016 : 8.5 /k
2017 : 8.6 /k
2018 : 8.7 /k
2019 : 8.8 /k
2020 : 8.9 / k
Yes it killed people. Overwhelmingly people who were going to die soon of another of their comorbidities or from another infectious disease that rarely kills anyone that is not two steps from the door out.
That's one lame pandemic, but one hell of a mass hysteria.
how many of those dead were already on the way out?
Fatties and boomers, primarily. A godsend
There are infectious diseases that aren't classified as Peking Pertussis?
Goddamn everything is being counted as Covid.