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SvennoJ on 18 March 2020
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SpokenTruth said:
Pyro as Bill said:

What we need is a bit of German efficiency. Everyone under 20 could be "inoculated" tomorrow with a minimal effect on the health service and it would result in a quarter of the population being immune. Even if it's temporary, surely that's better than nothing. Follow up with infecting half the 20-40yr olds a few days later and the other half a week after that and half the population will have immunity and would/could be safe to interact with the over 70s.

Ventilators. What's their fucking deal? I don't get what's so hard about them? They push oxygen enriched air in then suck it out. I get that the machines are pretty sophisticated but surely whatever is going on with them tubes can be replicated easily enough without all the electronics.

How do we inoculate anyone tomorrow without a vaccine yet?

He means infected, assuming everyone under 20 only gets mild symptoms and will be cured in a few days while building up immunity. The incubation period is on average 5 days.

In the resulting models, estimated median incubation time (IT) of COVID-19 was 5.1 days; mean IT was 5.5 days. For 97.5% of infected persons, symptoms appear by 11.5 days. Fewer than 2.5% are symptomatic within 2.2 days. Estimated median IT to fever was 5.7 days. Among 108 patients diagnosed outside mainland China, median IT was 5.5 days; the 73 patients diagnosed inside China had a median IT of 4.8 days. Using exposures designated as high risk and a 7-day monitoring period, the estimate for missed cases was 21.2 per 10,000. After 14 days, the estimated number of missed high-risk cases was 1 per 10,000 patients.
https://www.jwatch.org/na51083/2020/03/13/covid-19-incubation-period-update

Then the question is, how long are you contagious with asymptomatic symptoms.

“Everything that we have seen so far verifies the experience in China. Once you acquire the illness, you may be infectious to other people for up to 14 days. Now, those who are asymptomatic may not know when Day 1 starts to start counting to Day 14. But it's encouraging to know that while asymptomatic individuals can get sick, their ability to spread the disease is far less than those who are actively symptomatic, who have secretions, who are coughing, who can take this virus and spread it around to other people.”

Thus if you infect people that are asymptomatic (and know day 1), you still need to keep them isolated for 2 weeks.

That's while still in the dark whether immunity really works (reports of people getting it again or it flaring up again pop up here and there) and whether there are any long lasting effects.

https://www.healthing.ca/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus/can-you-have-covid-19-twice

Too many questions to fool around with any crazy schemes.