Why Americans Really Don't Give a Shit about Covid

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So here's the thing: People see these reports and horror stories on the Telly every day, but there is a bit of subconscious cognitive dissonance going on. Those horror stories just don't line up with what we observe.

The linked data tells you why your instincts are correct.

It appears that among Americans from birth to 64 years old, there have been recorded thus far about 5.8 million "cases." We all know some non-retired people who have tested positive, so that number jibes. The total number of deaths (all we really care about) of people from birth to 64 years old is about 38 thousand.

So to summarize grossly: There are AT LEAST 116 million Americans between the ages of 0 and 64, and of those 5.8 million have tested positive. So that's one in 20 have tested positive. And if you test positive, about one in 160 of you will die from this dreaded disease. So as an individual between the ages of zero and 64, there is about a one-in-3,000 chance that you will die of the disease. It's not actually that high, but close enough.

And as we all know, the younger you are, the less likely you will get sick and die, and the older you are...

This is why so many people said, "Fuck it" and celebrated T'giving with their families. The risk is tolerably low. And if you took extra precautions with Granny, the actual upside was greater than the potential downside.

if it hits at home, you will care.

Even if it does "hit home" and we do care, locks downs don't and can't possibly work. The 10 month failure proves that. By "flattening the curve", you make it last longer, thus spreading it further and deeper, and killing far more. With a quick strategy, like quarantine or herd immunity, it could be eradicated in 2 weeks, and hundreds of thousands of lives would be saved.

 

[Rigby5]

Anyone who does not understand how herd immunity saves lives, is seriously ignorant.
All epidemics are actually ended by herd immunity, even if aided by vaccinations or quarantine.
It is the most successful and oldest means of ending any and all epidemics.

Locks downs should be criminal because they not only prevent herd immunity, but have never worked, and always caused a death toll over 10 times higher than herd immunity.

 

[Rigby5]

Total quarantine or herd immunity are about the only real ways to end an epidemic.

We can start the quarantine (total) with the Empty Suit brigades who feel special having their cameras and microphones turned off- along with the talking head celebrity wanna be's- then concentrate on the city burners who defy the civilization they are helping destroy- then the "experts" get their cameras and mics turned off- stop the official printing presses and their operators too- then, we can make cars, trucks, buses and planes illegal- then heart attacks and cancer- hell. let's just cancel living- Uncle Sham and "experts" can fix everything, then we can carry on with life the way they want us to-- heavenly. Right?

Total quarantine would work to end any epidemic, but once this spread, that is hard and expensive to do.
Herd immunity is much easier.
All you have to do is increase the % of those already immune high enough, and it is all over in 2 weeks, with almost no dead.
That is because the death rate is over 40 times lower is you are under 70.
So all we need to do is ask for young volunteers.
They are more than willing because the odds are so safe.

The history of deliberate infection is interesting if anyone wants to read more.
Just search on variolation.
Goes back to ancient Egypt.
Works.