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Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
I still say the cure is worse than the disease.
This may be. This was my early position. remember I said something like, we should just endure it, accept a certain amount of deaths, mostly sick and older people until a cure or vaccine is found. I said it would be unpleasant but we can't destroy the economy for years to come.
The problem is we don't know what the numbers are, even now after 5-6 weeks. We know the total deaths are going to be lower than the initial models, BUT that is because everything has been shut down. We don't know what numbers we would be looking at if we had done nothing and gone about business as usual. :confused:
I don't blame any fraction of the government, including the president, who I don't particularly care for (based on him, not his policies, some of which I like). You can say maybe we (as a country) weren't as prepared as we could have been, even should have been. But who knew? Nobody knew this worst case scenario is how this would play out.
BUT< I don't understand why we can't do a much better job testing. Just imagine if we had tested, not everyone of course but a significant sample size, both healthily and symptomatic people. Then we would have some real data to work with. Maybe we would know for sure that 40% of the population has been infected, with 35% no symptoms, 4% mild flu like symptoms that resolve on there own, 1% need hospitalization, and .4% result in death. These numbers are just an example but if we had some real data, significant data based on a significant sample size, then we could reasonably decide our path forward. Without real data, we are guessing at everything.
About half of us here are AP and AP's depend on the data and a significant sample size. We don't guess at the math. (of course about half this forum does guess at the math, but lets not get into that right now).