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SvennoJ on 26 June 2020
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JRPGfan said:

IFR is somewhere around 0.6% to 1%, with covid19.
Assumeing you need 70%+ infected to reach herd immunity....

That means potentially 1,39m to 2,3m deaths (best case).
Likely IFR % goes up if your hospital system cant keep up with incomeing patients.
(some states are starting to run out of ICU bed space for covid19 patients, now)

Not to mention, its hard to keep going on as normal, when a leathal virus is makeing its way though society.
Ignoreing it, and continueing on as if nothing is wrong, and let it runs its course.... is going to have just as bad conscequences as trying to manage it.
(ei. it might still be cheaper and better for the economy to do a 2nd lockdown, not to mention human life costs)


"When this started I didn't think i would be hearing those types of comments."

Im not surprised some think how the stockmaket is doing, is more important than human lives.
We've also heard alot of republicans going "I would die for this flag, my freedoms,.. " who seem to think dieing for the economy is fine.

And that's still ignoring the collateral damage. Long lasting or permanent lung scarring even in asymptomatic patients. A rise in Kawasaki disease in children. And now a rise in Diabetes is observed in covid-19 patients. The costs of dealing with that in the future will add up.

Never mind there are still so many questions about effectiveness of immunity achieved by asymptomatic carriers, how long it will last or how well it will protect you against new strains. Letting it spread through the population is also giving the virus maximum opportunity to mutate into a more infectious version if not more damaging.

Short term thinking is what will bring society down. Heck we might already be past the point of return on global warming. If we can't even deal with a pandemic that could have been squashed in a matter of months, what chance is there to deal with global warming. It looks like we're stuck with covid19 until we can somehow convince enough people to get vaccinated over the next couple of years, provided we actually find an effective long lasting vaccine. Otherwise it's just going to keep circling around the globe with the only hope a less damaging more infectious strain pushes out the current more damaging version.