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(05-24-2020 03:43 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  

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(05-24-2020 12:23 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(05-24-2020 12:01 PM)Bearcatbdub Wrote:  CDC’s recent estimate for mortality rate of COVID is 0.05% for healthy people under 49. It’s 1.3% for people over 65.

Oxford researchers in the UK are fretting about a vaccine because the infection rates are too low to test it. How about this scenario: Damn thing is going to run its course and we will have wasted all those research dollars/time/energy for nothing.

Let’s protect our vulnerable population and get back to business already.

The problem is you can't protect the vulnerable with business as usual. If the low risk groups don't take precautions it's going to spread to vulnerable groups.

Masks (indoors) , limiting mass gatherings, social distancing as best you can ... these are things that will continue to be important even as we open more and more up. Combine those with contact tracing it would be even better. 100,000 dead despite incredible efforts. We need to continue to be vigilant even as we go about more normalized lives.

That just makes no sense at all. None.

I get that it's too much to ask you to think. It makes sense but you're going to have to do some critical thinking to get there.

Work for it. Maybe you'll surprise me.

Well, I'm just trying to think how this magical process works where no matter what we do, we low riskers are always going to seek out and destroy those most at risk.

Even if those most vulnerable are at home, have washed their hands and all that good stuff, if I go to B-dubs to watch a game I'm somehow going to end up costing someone their life.

But if you say so...

You go to B-Dubs and spread it to 30 people. They each unknowingly spread to 30 more. It's not rocket science...