The nation is on the verge of Chap 11 Daryl , our economy literally has one foot on a stimulus ,the other in oblivion
Nothing the gub'mit has done so far helps, much the other way round
They are killing us, inch by excruciating inch
So maybe you see, after 8-9 months of their pandering to us, that we no longer want their help
what we want , is to work
and further, understand i do not say this lightly, there is a movement way down in the bowels of industry (where you'll find sm guys like me) who question why we are paying tax $$$ to a gub'mit that won't allow us to work
sorry if that seems simplistic , but sometimes simple sezs it best
~S~
I don't begrudge anyone from working or any business from being open as long as they follow the intelligent Covid 19 guidelines. No, the Production won't be as high as Pre Covid but it will still be in production. Following the guidelines doesn't mean you completely stop Covid but you reduce it enough that it will slowly just run out of readily available hosts.
To give you an idea, The Spanish Flu never was cured. Today, we know it by another name and it's Not Influenza, it's H1N1. They started to isolate it, started requiring mandandory Mask wearing in infected areas and stopped free flow of people to and from those areas. The Spanish Flu just ran out of people to infect after a period of time. It took it about a year. The same methods were used in 2009 and that was a success. We didn't mask up here because it was never allowed to reach us here and it was never allowed to spread to MOST of the US in 2009.
The Spanish Flu was much more deadly because it was allowed to spread due to WWI. Believe it or not, it wasn't Spain that spread it to the US, it was the US that spread it to Spain and the rest of the world. Our WWI soldiers deployed with it and spread it. But they kept it secret due to the Nation going on to War Footing and NOTHING could get in the way of winning the War. It had the same effect that largely ignoring it once Covid 19 was deeply entrenched like it is today. Even today, we have Enfluenca and the modern form of H1N1 around as well as Polio, Small Pox and a few others but it's so small and easily quarrentined. Trust me, if you have Small Pox, you won't get any option to not get vaccinated and go into a lockdown for the gestation period. But at one time, it killed by the millions.
Even with the Vaccine coming, we are going to hit more deaths directly related to Covid 19 than we lost in WWII. We already exceed more than WWI, Korea and Vietnam. And it took all of them years to accumulate those high numbers. Covid 19 did it in a matter of months even with some of the precautions. Without those meager precautions, Covid 19 would have been at least a Million in the US alone in direct related Covid 19 deaths.
Now let's talk about the Vaccines. I do hope they work. Even so, over 40% of the people will refuse to take it which negates a large value of having it in the first place. The idea is to remove the hosts. When the first Polio vaccines were introduced, I forgot the persons name, but the first batch killed and maimed a lot of people before the Salks Vaccine was finally introduced. The slower developed vaccine won. But the older vaccine did work. It removed the Host, sometimes through immunity and other times through death. I am not saying to take it or not (I will be one of the first taking it because catching Covid 19 is a death sentence to me) but I am just saying that some people will not and that means Covid 19 will still be out there in a large portion of the Population.
Let's do some fun math here. Today, one in 20 people are carrying Covid 19 whether they have the virus or not or even show symptoms. If 1/3 of the people refuse the vaccine that means that it will be one out of 60. And we don't know how long the Vaccine will give you full immunity as it's not been tested long enough to know. We already know that those that have either had minor or no symptoms that test positive for Covid 19 ended up with about a month and a half immunity. The idea is to refuse the Virus hosts long enough for it to die off or nearly so so that simple contact tracing and minor isolation can be done. You can do that in two ways. Have EVERYONE innoculated like Polio OR mandantory Isolation like the Spanish Flu. NO exceptions.
But you have to get to the point where EVERYONE is cooperating either way.