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Originally Posted by MrWookie
You seem to be doing your part to change that.
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Mr. Wookie, give me the magic bullet of how we beat COVID 19. It is an invisible enemy that will not go away.
There isn't one.
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Waiting on a vaccine is too long.
Says who? You and Kemp? Are you an epidemiologist?
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It's time to reopen. Numbers are going up because testing is adequate.
Your definition of adequate testing is...whatever level of testing there is such that our case numbers keep going up?
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Certainly the Stanford study has its flaws, but I do believe that many more people had this than we know. Mortality rate is far lower than being reported.
That Stanford study is deeply flawed, and the notion that appreciable numbers of people having had this without ever being symptomatic is wholly inconsistent not only with the number of deaths we've had but also with the timing of them. Also, the number of deaths is being substantially undercounted.
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The one area that would be really helpful to understand is if you can get this twice. Mixed data from South Korea. If the answer is yes, there is no answer other than dealing with it until a vaccine is developed as herd immunity won't really be a thing. Still don't know how it mutates, not will we anytime soon.
Oh right, let's not just kill off 0.5%-1% of our population, let's do it multiple times!
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Also, people that got better, what are long term effects? No one knows, nor will we.
People are showing severe lung damage that could cause long term health problems long after the virus is gone.
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Not just dealing with this, like the flu, will cause bigger problems for everyone. We are at risk of losing all community hospitals to bankruptcy. Is that a solution you are comfortable with?
We are at risk of losing our credit rating as a nation.
We could try taxing rich people.
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I can go on and on and on about the negative impacts of prolong shelter in place rules. In areas where outbreaks occur, we are now better equipped to shutdown/contain and have proper equipment to deal with than we did 5 weeks ago.
Not saying shutdown wasn't the best answer at the time, but prolonged shutdown is a terrible answer.
Brian Kemp, 2024!
lol