(09-26-2020, 06:37 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(09-26-2020, 06:33 PM)mikesez Wrote: Smallpox was related to a mild disease known as cowpox.
But that's not relevant.
I mean, if you see me running from a lion, are you going to make fun of me and say, "what are you so scared of? it's related to a kitty cat after all!"
Put down the bottle and get help man sheesh.

The point is running from this virus, or trying to hide from it, benefits no one. Your analogy is garbage.

It's not small pox. It's not the Black Plague.

It's a virus that literally will be with us forever. We need to build an immunity to it as a whole - not run away or pause life.

Somewhere between 5 and 10% of Americans have antibodies to the virus after about seven months of it being here. That's about 20 million people.
200,000 have died already.
About 1% of the people who have caught it, have died.
If you let the virus run through us until we have something like herd immunity, you're looking at at least a million, probably closer to 2 million, dead, and it would take about 3 to 5 years.

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