Originally Posted by redietz
Originally Posted by quahaugIt's despicable the glee you take in peoples deaths. I don't understand how you can hate to the degree you do.Originally Posted by redietz
If I hated people, I wouldn't be on here emphasizing how bad this is going to be. This site, if you'll notice, is filled with deniers and people who take non-experts' opinions over experts'.
I'm trying to get people to wake up a day, two days, a week ahead of what they might otherwise do if they listened to the optimistic posts on this site. Cut off the social interaction, jam your optimism, and be prepared. I've been ahead of the curve because I've read the international papers for months and have some sense of what a pandemic is, partly because my late wife's research had to do with Native Americans at time of contact, when they were wiped out by pandemics.
The last 36 hours point towards this being far, far worse than I thought it would be, and I thought it would be horrendous.
Twenty minutes ago, Dr. Fauci reported that previous projections were low, and that he expected between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths, but he didn't want to be held to that. The frightening aspect of this is that at each step, we have been given underestimations.
I watched an interview last night with one of South Korea's leading epidemiologists, who gives a Dragnet-style interview. Very matter of fact. It's subtitled. Some of his key points: wearing masks has no down side, and the recommendation to not wear them probably has more to do with medical professionals in the U.S. needing them as opposed to efficacy of the masks. He also says a country like South Korea would normally need 10 years to develop a practical working vaccine, but the U.S., if everything goes absolutely perfectly, may be able to do it in 18 months. He also says the U.S. and Europe appeared overconfident regarding the virus and cultural differences make it hard for the U.S. to respond optimally.
I recommend the interview.
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