Pat,
You quote me and say that:
.... at least 2,000 people in the US are dying everyday....&
of course that's true, but the US is big. Epidemics are like forest
fires. An outbreak in a particular place needs to be dealt with
urgently, but somewhere else nothing is happening & life can go on
as ever. I know that's a simplistic allusion, but it's the best I can do
at the moment.
Ok, but 2,000 people dying per day in the US adds up to 730,000 people per year. In my mind, that's a lot of people.
And I believe that the 2,000 deaths is low compared to if there is no social distancing. Let's say with reopening the death rate goes to 4,000 people per day then you've got 1.43 million people dead.
Trump says that we'll put out the fires and so forth if there's a second wave (which there will be).
Really?
Is the testing and contact tracing really in place in quantities large enough to stop the virus once it gets going again?
I doubt it.
Is there a vaccine or a therapeutic treatment for COVID-19? No there is not. So, how do you put out these fires? You don't and they just grow and grow, IMO.
