Ultimately, the people need to raise the stakes and stop this authoritarianism. The people have the power but they're gonna have to use it or these little tin pot authoritarian governors, mayors, local officials are gonna keep pushing that boot deeper into the neck.
When south Texas floods the government should say.....you're on your own?
Is that a threat, give up your rights or else the government services you paid for are withheld?
Nobody is being asked to give up their rights. People are being asked to behave responsibility during a pandemic.
My father and older brothers were asked to quit their jobs, join the military and fight World War II and they did it without hesitation. My oldest brother carried shrapnell in his body from his wounds on Juno Beach during D-day, until the day he died. You're being asked to sit on your ass at home and you're not prepared to do that.
But shutting down the economy and preventing herd immunity does NOT aid the country.
The Lock Down saves no lives at all, but only slows down the infection rate, thus making it last longer and kill more people.
If instead we asked for volunteers, like we did in WWII, then we could deliberately infect the young and healthy with the strain of COVID that is not lethal, and have this all over in 2 weeks.
The least deaths comes from achieving 55% herd immunity as quickly as possible.
And by speeding it up, then the compromised have much less chance of accidental exposure.
1. THE USA HAS NOT SHUT DOWN. You've have pockets and districts which have shut down, but the USA has not shut down, and unless and until you do, the virus will continue to rage out of control. There has been no national shut down.
2. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF HERD IMMUNITY IN THIS DISEASE. There are numerous cases in both South Korea and Italy where individuals who have had covid19 are getting it for a second time. We won't have any information on this until testing is complete, so it may be months away before we know one way or another for certain.
3. THE GOAL WAS TO SLOW INFECTION SO THAT HOSPITALS AREN'T OVERWHELMED Ask the health care workers in the hot spot zones, what the shut down is doing for them. Hospitals in hot zones are overwhelmed. The staff are working long hours with no PPE's. Many are getting sick and more than a few have died. The USA has less than 1 million hospital beds in total, and on any given day, 700,000 of those beds are full of patients with heart attacks, cancer, and various surgeries. There are only about 300,000 beds in the USA available for this pandemic and as of this morning, you have 920,000 people sick with this virus.
Your rate of illness continues to rise. Yesterday was the worst day for death in the USA since this started. Unless and until the entire country shuts down for a least a month, stopping this virus is just going to be a game of whack-a-mole, and your economy will continue to suffer.
Here in Ontario, we shut down in early March and we haven't re-opened. Of course we had tests and PPE's from day one because we have a government who learned from SARS and H1N1, and we were ready. We never ran out and we tested everyone coming in from hot zones. Our infections took off when we called Canadians home from the USA, where the virus was already out of control, but we even succeeded in shutting those infections down.
Our "closed cases" now triple our active cases. When the Premier announced a week ago that our closed cases exceeded our active cases, he announced the schools would stay closed until June 1st.
Tomorrow, our construction industry re-opens. All workers must have face shields, masks and gloves. That's what happens when you do the smart thing and
#StayTheFuckAtHome.
That is completely wrong,
1. The lock down means you are required to stay at home unless you are one of essential services like food distribution. While big businesses like Costco and Walmart have bribed governors into remaining open, that is only because they sell food. Everything else is shut down. I don't know anyone allowed to be open except food distribution.
And the shut down does NOT at all reduce infection or death totals. It slows down infection rate a little, but that only delays herd immunity, which is the only means of ending it since there is no vaccine. And that increases the death total, not decreases it.
The only thing that can control any epidemic is herd immunity.
2. All viruses have always hard herd immunity through out all of human evolution, or else we would have gone extinct. Not only has there never been a single case of anyone getting COVID-19 a second time, but if you could, there would have been no peak or decline. The cases where people claimed to get it twice, likely was from getting a bacterial pneumonia or flu instead of COVID-19. We have antibodies as proof. And those antibodies have been used to cure others. So herd immunity is absolute. There is no question about it.
3. Yes initially there was a point to slow the infection rate to prevent hospital overloading, but now half the hospital staff is being laid off with nothing to do. There no longer is any risk of hospital overloading.
And you lie when you say the rate of infect continues to climb.
It has drastically reduced.
The entire country of the US has peaked and stabilized at far less than the peak.
Nor did any of your businesses ever have to shut down.
With masks and PPE, you could have continued with business as usual, right from the beginning.
This COVID-19 is not at all that contagious. It has a R0 of less than 2 it turns out.
The entire lock down was a fraud deliberately orchestrated to cause panic and hysteria.