Would COVID be over by now if we hadn’t social distanced?

Get rid of your airbags and seatbelts, if you get into a car accident it's far better to fly headfirst through your windshield and die instantly than suffer some broken bones and be in agony with a long recovery ahead of you.

Yep! Without a Doubt. Herd Immunity is the only way to beat this. Common Sense

We gave that a try in Texas, but the hospitals are now all full and most everyone is staying home. The funny thing about herd immunity is that a good number of people are not willing to risk permanent lung damage and death just so you can go to Bombshells and hit on the strippers/waitresses. People are funny that way.

I love it when people don't wear masks, but have on sunglasses and hats, then get into their cars and put on seatbelts. Most brush their teeth later in the day, too, it's funny.

Let's see, so far 2,700,000 infected in the USA and 130,000 dead. Assume 60% for herd immunity, so that's 330,000,000 x 0.6 = 198,000,000. At the same rate of death that's 9,500,000 dead.

It it worth killing almost 10 million Americans just to end this? Sure the death toll may be lower if the disease is more widespread in healthy people. That would be offset by overwhelmed healthcare systems and people would die of other things they may not have otherwise.

And of course this ignores the disability the virus causes in some people. It also ignores that we just don't know if having the virus gives you immunity. It could be like flu that you need a vaccine every year.

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

I love it when people don't wear masks, but have on sunglasses and hats, then get into their cars and put on seatbelts. Most brush their teeth later in the day, too, it's funny.

Everything now is hyper polarized and that's magnified bc of the complete buffoon that is in office. I don't remember the vocal supporters of Bush being this damned stupid. Sure the people who vote for Trump voted for Bush but he was not an idiot. The proliferation of false information on the internet has made discourse impossible.

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

I love it when people don't wear masks, but have on sunglasses and hats, then get into their cars and put on seatbelts. Most brush their teeth later in the day, too, it's funny.

Healthcare workers are getting gum infections from breathing in their own carbon dioxide. People like you who buy into the narrative are part of problem. Why don't we get the flu or colds in the summer? It cannot survive. How stupid do you have to be to believe that we can get a virus in the middle of the summer.

we could be done with this wrote:

My guess is that if we’d just let COVID run its course without taking any special precautions, this would all be over by now.

Well with your very analytical argument, I'm convinced!

Breloo wrote:

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

I love it when people don't wear masks, but have on sunglasses and hats, then get into their cars and put on seatbelts. Most brush their teeth later in the day, too, it's funny.

Healthcare workers are getting gum infections from breathing in their own carbon dioxide. People like you who buy into the narrative are part of problem. Why don't we get the flu or colds in the summer? It cannot survive. How stupid do you have to be to believe that we can get a virus in the middle of the summer.

Complete idiot. It's hot as balls in Florida and Texas right now and the virus is thrashing those states. Brazil is second in the world right now after our pitifully run country, is it cold there right now fool?

No! NO! AND N..O.. stay home at all costs. If you absolutely NEED to go out, wear your mask. 6+ feet. Wash your hands. Forget about running races and sports for now.

Of course its hitting the southern states the hardest. Shhhhh

we could be done with this wrote:

My guess is that if we’d just let COVID run its course without taking any special precautions, this would all be over by now. It’s like ripping off a bandaid. Better to rip it off fast and feel some pain in the near term. When you try to slow it down because you’re scared of a quick jolt of pain, you just end up hurting more and for longer.

why use science and data and trained experts to formulate a plan when we can just go off this guy's guess?

Breloo wrote:

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

I love it when people don't wear masks, but have on sunglasses and hats, then get into their cars and put on seatbelts. Most brush their teeth later in the day, too, it's funny.

Healthcare workers are getting gum infections from breathing in their own carbon dioxide. People like you who buy into the narrative are part of problem. Why don't we get the flu or colds in the summer? It cannot survive. How stupid do you have to be to believe that we can get a virus in the middle of the summer.

You are the stupidest person on this site.

Surgeons wear masks for 12+ hrs/day for years and have never complained of things like this.

we could be done with this wrote:

My guess is that if we’d just let COVID run its course without taking any special precautions, this would all be over by now. It’s like ripping off a bandaid. Better to rip it off fast and feel some pain in the near term. When you try to slow it down because you’re scared of a quick jolt of pain, you just end up hurting more and for longer.

Sweden disagrees.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

Breloo wrote:

Healthcare workers are getting gum infections from breathing in their own carbon dioxide. People like you who buy into the narrative are part of problem. Why don't we get the flu or colds in the summer? It cannot survive. How stupid do you have to be to believe that we can get a virus in the middle of the summer.

Complete idiot. It's hot as balls in Florida and Texas right now and the virus is thrashing those states. Brazil is second in the world right now after our pitifully run country, is it cold there right now fool?

I’m saying you’re being fooled you moron. We’re all being deceived. The Covid-19 tests are being faked. This is a plandemic. Enjoy going to your FEMA camp

Not would it be over with all of the million or so deaths out if the way, but a million or so more would be dead from other ailments that couldn’t be treated because of maxed out hospitals.

we could be done with this wrote:

My guess is that if we’d just let COVID run its course without taking any special precautions, this would all be over by now. It’s like ripping off a bandaid. Better to rip it off fast and feel some pain in the near term. When you try to slow it down because you’re scared of a quick jolt of pain, you just end up hurting more and for longer.

Yes this correct....

The New York metro area inadvertantly did this which is why their cases are down. They have strict mandates now, but they would likely have similar results with no mandates because everyone has been infected. Of course they also had about 6 times or more the fatality rate of the rest of the country (and about 20 times that of Texas). Treatments are better now, so fewer people are dying. If they revised the IFR to account for the new treatments, it would probably be closer to 0.1. Cases are at record levels (at least confirmed cases), but deaths continue to plunge. 7-day death totals dropped below 4,000 to 3,906 today. At peak, they were 15,481 (about a 75% drop).

lunatone wrote:

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

Complete idiot. It's hot as balls in Florida and Texas right now and the virus is thrashing those states. Brazil is second in the world right now after our pitifully run country, is it cold there right now fool?

I’m saying you’re being fooled you moron. We’re all being deceived. The Covid-19 tests are being faked. This is a plandemic. Enjoy going to your FEMA camp

Idiot