Following the Science

[DGS49]

So, immediately after the election, the new President calls a news conference and tells us that he had consulted all the best scientists and here's what they've come up with:

We can go back to "normal," doing things the way we did back in January and prior, and that includes restaurants, health clubs movie theaters, sporting events, churches and synagogues, etc., but with the following "costs":

1. The number of Covid 19 "cases" will explode across the country. Our hospitals will be busy, but not overrun;
2. Our ICU's will be busy but not to the point where they can't treat everyone who needs it;
3. The daily number of Covid 19 -related deaths will initially rise to about 5 thousand, then gradually drop off for a year or so, by which point they will be no greater than deaths from the common flu;
4. The age-related pattern will remain as it is now; the majority of deaths will be over 75 years old, and 90% of THEM will be partly due to other serious sicknesses that the victims had;
5. By June of 2021, treatments will have advanced to the point where a healthy adult dying from Covid 19 will be about as common as someone being eaten by a shark.

With those "costs," would YOU support fully opening the economy, so that it quickly returns to where it was on, say 2/1/2020?

 

[BULLDOG]

Of course not.

 

[Dick Foster]

So, immediately after the election, the new President calls a news conference and tells us that he had consulted all the best scientists and here's what they've come up with:

We can go back to "normal," doing things the way we did back in January and prior, and that includes restaurants, health clubs movie theaters, sporting events, churches and synagogues, etc., but with the following "costs":

1. The number of Covid 19 "cases" will explode across the country. Our hospitals will be busy, but not overrun;
2. Our ICU's will be busy but not to the point where they can't treat everyone who needs it;
3. The daily number of Covid 19 -related deaths will initially rise to about 5 thousand, then gradually drop off for a year or so, by which point they will be no greater than deaths from the common flu;
4. The age-related pattern will remain as it is now; the majority of deaths will be over 75 years old, and 90% of THEM will be partly due to other serious sicknesses that the victims had;
5. By June of 2021, treatments will have advanced to the point where a healthy adult dying from Covid 19 will be about as common as someone being eaten by a shark.

With those "costs," would YOU support fully opening the economy, so that it quickly returns to where it was on, say 2/1/2020?

Drool much? Keep that mask on because the one thing it's good for is keeping the drool off of your clothes.