Considering all available evidence, seems to me the coronavirus is going to run through the country like it ran through NY until we reach herd immunity, regardless of what measures we take to slow it down. Shutting down and staying in is just prolonging it, because there...
...will always be a segment of society (essential workers, BLM protesters, celebrity and political funeral goers) who are out and about, and those shut-ins will have to come out some day and take their chances. We still don't know the primary mode of transmission, and may...
...never figure it out. It also stands to reason that there are millions of undiagnosed, undeclared cases out there - people who had no symptoms beyond the sniffles and thought nothing of it - and we're closer to herd immunity than the numbers would suggest. Either way, we're...
...dealing with a virus that, while more deadly than the flu for elderly and medically at-risk, appears to be less-deadly than the flu for the rest of the population. Everything we're doing now, however well-intentioned (or even ill-intentioned) is almost surely a waste of...
...time, energy, money, and resources - but there is no political benefit to changing course, so we will spend the billions and trillions to subsidize a collective wild ass guess and claim victory when we reach a level of immunity we would've reached regardless of whether or...
...not we all screamed at each other to wear masks and bump elbows. We're experiencing a crisis of our own making, and we're going to pretend, when it's over, that everything is fine.
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