We have to infect the entire population with the coronavirus in order to save it from the COVID-19 disease.
A few voices are actually saying this right now, mostly on "conservative" talk radio. You know who I mean.
England was going to pursue this policy until they realized just how many people would have to die.
Consider what this would mean in the US.
Let's take the South Korean mortality rate, which right now is 1.7% after 6 weeks with no new cases reported today (the US is currently at 2.7% after 4 weeks). Say half the population gets exposed because we give up, go back to work and carry on: 165 million get exposed @ 1.7% means 2.8 million deaths.
Mark Levin was poo-poohing such a catastrophe on his show tonight, like it's not even a possibility, as he rattled off the deaths annually from our wars, heart disease, cancer, etc.
He's wrong. They're all wrong. America is a wide open sitting duck for this disease, which spreads like a cold but kills like the flu. We have the most cases in the world already, by far, 276,965. Flu doesn't spread the way coronavirus does. Not everyone gets the flu. 30 million flu cases is typical, with 30,000 deaths, that's it, in a completely free and open society. But everyone gets a cold. Everyone. And that's the problem. A high morbidity rate.
Fortunately 3/4 of those surveyed think stopping this coronavirus is job one, not saving the economy.
Yes, this will be catastrophic for the economy. It already is. But we've had economic catastrophe before and we know how to rebuild.
The important thing right now is for the government to rescue people, not companies, and buy us some time so that the people actually saving us in the hospitals aren't overwhelmed and succumb. Without Americans there will be no America.
Conserve that.
