| EricHiggin said: There are a lot of assumptions in general as a whole. Hospitals around here aren't packed. They're pretty slow, and not just because everything else hospital related is getting put on hold. Instead of locking people down in denser cities, they should be allowing them to spread out. Those at risk then need to stay put however. Spread the individuals who need hospitalization over a broader area so the burden is shared more equally. The more spread out people were, the less risk of contracting it. Physical distancing right? Let people make their own decision based on age and health. They know their own risks for the most part. People who have to go out and get stuff now, either are getting others to get it for them, or are going themselves anyway if they have no other choice, so that doesn't change much. People should also be covering up with whatever they can. It may not do everything, but it will help. Completely exposing yourself is just making it easier to contract. I've read people are being tested for antibodies and have immunity so yes you can become immune. How long does that last? More than a week or two. You don't need experts to tell you that. If that's how are bodies worked, we'd all be screwed. We don't understand it 100%, but we also know what it's not. No way will everyone get tested, or vaccinated. That's never going to happen and not because the system wouldn't be able to accomplish it, so letting it pass through the strong now and ending it or limiting it's weaker hosts after the fact makes more sense. If this continues it's going to get out of hand. I've seen ever growing social groups planning protests if changes aren't made or the lock down isn't lifted, which will make things even worse for a while if they happen. The Gov's can't allow things to continue like this, and the people themselves won't allow it. Either a vaccine by chance shows up much sooner than later, or reasonable logical changes are made to the lock down, or people stop listening and things get much worse overall. |
This indecisiveness is exactly what's making it worse. If everyone does there part it could be contained within a month, then with accurate tracking and tracing we could start 'living' again. South Korea is doing it! I don't know what area you're in but here there is only one real hospital close with had 4 out of 9 ICU beds available and are currently in use to ventilate covid19 patients. The hospitals in bigger cities further away are also dealing with the covid19 outbreak. Sedatives and pain killers are running out. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/painkillers-and-sedatives-may-reach-critical-shortage-emergency-physicians-group-1.4895462 We're barely hanging on with the current extreme measures in place where basically everyone has to self isolate.
I've read people have been tested for anti bodies and the tests turned out to be wrong, identifying the wrong anti bodies or simply generating false positives. I've also read that minimal anti bodies from minimal exposure doesn't mean you'll be immune for heavier exposure. If you're going to let it run through the younger population, you'll get a much bigger virus load from all different angles. I've also read about the virus re-activating again in some people, making them contagious again etc.
I was wrong in my 2 month assessment though, it won't pass through that fast, at least 3 months, then another month for hopefully most people to recover. There are still 60+ active cases from the Diamond Princess since the start of Februari. Of course you also pretty much disrupt your essential workforce for months by letting it eat its way through it.
This is a time to listen to the experts and the scientists or things will get much worse. It can be contained, it's up to the people how well we get through this. Which is the biggest problem :/
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