I’m saddened by the number of people I know that call themselves conservatives that are being sanctimonious about their intent to ignore the efforts to return to normal. They happily state if stores, churches, and businesses open, they will not go. It’s fine. Not going is also freedom, but the sanctimony as if they are heroes for defying the reopening is absurd.
Today, I started to mute many of these people on my social media platforms. I discovered in the process an easy way to determine who to mute. All of the ones I muted were sharing news media articles. The people left were ones that provided original thoughts.
If the places opening up had some idea how many people had anti-bodies, we’d be in a lot better position to estimate what will happen.
New York City has evidence that their rate of infection was around 20%. The cruise ships and the Roosevelt all had somewhere between 10 and 20% infection too although that was by testing for the active infection rather than the anti-body.
The conditions on the ships were far more confined than on land, outside of some sort of institution. That means that all of the uninfected were exposed repeatedly over a considerable period.
If the proportion of the population that have anti-bodies were somewhere in the range of 10-20%, I think that it would indicate that there was unlikely to be a large surge from opening up. A rate of less than 5% would probably mean that a larger number of new cases was likely.
In any case, protecting those that are at known risk would help control the number of very serious cases. There would still be those that come up on the bad side of the odds for whatever reason which is regrettable but unavoidable.
As it is, when we open up here in Texas next week, they’re flying blind. Actually doing it takes some courage, there’s no shortage of those that will second guess. Realistically, it can’t continue much longer. It still will probably cause long term serious pain to everybody that $1.200 won’t begin to cover.
The lockdown has been so loose that I don’t think there will be a lot of new cases. I don’t expect either Trump or Abbot to get any credit. They will be blamed for every death while the fact that all they ever attempted was to flatten the curve is forgotten.
So, those two California doctors who trotted out all the statistics and advised that the lockdown be ended for healthy people? YouTube has taken down the video. YouTube has taken down every copy of the video. Community Guidelines!
So much for the free exchange of ideas.
It’s not free if someone else is paying for it. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
I’m saddened by the number of people I know that call themselves conservatives that are being sanctimonious about their intent to ignore the efforts to return to normal. They happily state if stores, churches, and businesses open, they will not go. It’s fine. Not going is also freedom, but the sanctimony as if they are heroes for defying the reopening is absurd.
Today, I started to mute many of these people on my social media platforms. I discovered in the process an easy way to determine who to mute. All of the ones I muted were sharing news media articles. The people left were ones that provided original thoughts.
If the places opening up had some idea how many people had anti-bodies, we’d be in a lot better position to estimate what will happen.
New York City has evidence that their rate of infection was around 20%. The cruise ships and the Roosevelt all had somewhere between 10 and 20% infection too although that was by testing for the active infection rather than the anti-body.
The conditions on the ships were far more confined than on land, outside of some sort of institution. That means that all of the uninfected were exposed repeatedly over a considerable period.
If the proportion of the population that have anti-bodies were somewhere in the range of 10-20%, I think that it would indicate that there was unlikely to be a large surge from opening up. A rate of less than 5% would probably mean that a larger number of new cases was likely.
In any case, protecting those that are at known risk would help control the number of very serious cases. There would still be those that come up on the bad side of the odds for whatever reason which is regrettable but unavoidable.
As it is, when we open up here in Texas next week, they’re flying blind. Actually doing it takes some courage, there’s no shortage of those that will second guess. Realistically, it can’t continue much longer. It still will probably cause long term serious pain to everybody that $1.200 won’t begin to cover.
The lockdown has been so loose that I don’t think there will be a lot of new cases. I don’t expect either Trump or Abbot to get any credit. They will be blamed for every death while the fact that all they ever attempted was to flatten the curve is forgotten.
So, those two California doctors who trotted out all the statistics and advised that the lockdown be ended for healthy people? YouTube has taken down the video. YouTube has taken down every copy of the video. Community Guidelines!
So much for the free exchange of ideas.
It’s not free if someone else is paying for it. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
At least the video is still available: https://newtube.app/user/anthony/GlkxUvo