(05-04-2020, 02:38 PM)Rico Wrote:

(05-04-2020, 01:46 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Current testing is showing that the proliferation of COVID-19 happened much sooner than we knew, many more people than we know have already been infected and recovered, and that the fatality rate is consistent with an average flu season globally. Anyway, carry on.

So there have been stay at home orders for 'average' flu season?  You don't think that maybe that has affected the numbers?

Sure it has, as has the continuous misreporting of the numbers. What we're learning is that the virus has been here for a bit longer than we thought and people have been sick from it who will never be counted in the numbers. The point of the lock down was never to stop people from dying, it was to stop them from all overwhelming the medical system at the same time. Mission Accomplished! Now we're discovering that the number of critical cases of COVID aren't reflective of the infection rate of the general population. Pandemics follow a statistical curve and this one hasn't been any different in its behavior.Yes, it's critically dangerous to a small class of people, mostly the same people who are similarly at risk for a variety of other contagions that are similarly deadly. But we aren't going to eradicate it, we're going to have to learn to live with it even when we get a vaccine because no vaccine is ever 100% effective. But COVID-19 is not an Apocalyptic Plague that will destroy all mankind as was initially thought and broadcast to the public. All of this is very good news!

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