Sprintcyclist wrote on May 12
th, 2020 at 8:42am:
aquascoot wrote on May 12
th, 2020 at 8:29am:
Sprintcyclist wrote on May 12
th, 2020 at 8:22am:
cods wrote on May 12
th, 2020 at 7:18am:
AND IF WE DIDNT HAVE LOCKDOWN???????????
just askin!
Unknown number of deaths and the economy would have taken a hit anyway.
This way, fewer deaths and a controlled hit to the economy
Sprint that would be true if we emerged from this lockdown in better shape than we started
We haven't
Virtually no one has been infected so it is as if we are back to square one
The virus is impossible to eradicate so it will just create the next wave
I can't see a treatment or a vaccine coming for a long time
And the vaccine will probably be less effective than the flu vaccine
Which is under 60% effective
We still get a flu epidemic every year
This thing is 4X as contagious as the flu
So you can virtually guarantee
Even if we get a good vaccine next year
Covid-19 returning year after year after year
We have to learn to live with it
If there was any logic to stay in lockdown for longer
I'm really keen to hear what it is
Our economy is in much worse shape than late last year.
It will take years to recover.
I cannot see a vaccine for some time and believe now is a good time to emerge and restart our lives.
We are well armed now and have bought time.
With the covid safe app, physical distancing, good regular hand washing, not touching face we can win.
It has cost us a lot financially and little in lives lost.
This is a pandemic, it will damage us all in some ways.
At some stage money becomes just another figure on a computer screen.
I prefer less money and my parents alive.
Some recent testing in New York sprint shows that perhaps 30 to 40% of the population are now showing antibodies and have had it
Many of them a symptomatic
So if your parents were in New York
Where the virus had infected more people
Without overwhelming the hospital system one must add
Then your parents would be safer in a city where there had been more exposure
As more of the people they were meeting in their day-to-day contacts
We're already immune
Currently your parents are him just as much risk as they were in January
If we don't get a good vaccine and we probably won't
Then your parents will be at risk indefinitely
The only thing that reduces that risk somewhat
Is if the rest of the population have had the disease and now have antibodies
It's ironic that the reward for our success
Is ultimately now the thing that will probably lead to our failure
Again if there is no good vaccine
And no treatment
The options are to accept the risk
Or to remain lockdown forever
The option of John Smith virtue signalling
Is a fake option and really quite disgraceful and dishonest