Canvasback: I don't know if it's that easy to arrive at your conclusion (because of the bewildering amounts of conflicting data being spewed by the political pundits and their sycophantic media), but it does seem to me that many more people have already had this infection and gotten over it without much inconvenience. Current testing result trends seem to confirm this. Without more hard data that is difficult to prove, however. "Testing and tracing!" seems to be the war-cry of the folks on the left these days and they seem to use it in order to justify the continuing shut-down of the economy. I suspect their motives....
We (the United States) clearly had to close our borders (at first for flights from China, and then later from Europe) and shut-down our country because we simply didn't know what we were up against (thank the ChiComs for that one!). We clearly didn't want to become the tragedy that was Italy in February/March. We seem to know a lot more about the infection now and it also seems clear (at least to me) that we must get on with it here or we'll do irreparable damage to our country. I have been told that the median age for fatalities from this infection is eighty (80), I have also heard (from a credible source) that almost half of the recorded deaths have come from nursing homes. Given that, I know that I'm more than willing to climb back on a plane and go back to work, (even though I'm now at an age were I am at some increased risk). I don't mind being asked to wear a mask and to be socially distant, and I will comply...but I deeply resent being told to do so by petty tyrants. How this will all play out is hard to predict.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 05/12/20 10:37 AM.
