lukeyrid13 wrote:UofDuck wrote:I’m not sure the UK isn’t taking the right approach. Quarantine the high risk and everyone else mingle and get it over with. Time will tell.
This is my mindset for now. I’m very much so hoping I’m right but I’m personally just still not seeing numbers or projections that dictate the level of panic that is setting in.
Here’s the thing, some of you strongly disagree with me, and that’s ok. In the end, we all have our own opinions and thankfully I’m not in charge of large public sectors so my opinion is moot.
I think it’s paradoxical, almost everyone under 50 shows little to no symptoms at all, which shows that’s it’s not harmful...but because they don’t even look or feel sick it’s harmful. I think both can be true and frankly making both overall mindsets correct.
This was my first mindset as well, a month ago, because I believed the virus was going to go through the population anyway so we might as well get it over with but I changed my mind because of two "what ifs".
What if you take the Boris Johnson gamble and let it run wild and one of the following happens?
1) It spreads like the flu exponentially and rapidly and the death rate percentage soars with hundreds of thousands dying of this and other conditions who would have lived with ICU care that wasn't available because it hit all at once.
2) You let the virus ramp up now, accept the deaths that occur this spring, but then the virus slows down in summer and the vaccine being tested now becomes reading available before the fall, such that most of the deaths from letting it run wild in the spring were preventable.
3) Both of the above.
These are viable possibilities even if not probabilities. The H1N1 vaccine went on line in 6 months instead of the current 12 - 18 month expectation for Covid-19. If thousands of young people, 10s of thousands of middle age people and 100s of thousands of elder people die unnecessarily because you chose the Johnson plan as opposed to what the vast majority of experts in the field think is right, that's a hell of a "my bad".