Covid over in 30 days

BUT, it cripples many folks with post-Covid-related illness that send people back in the hospital, keeps them out of work, and costs tax dollars.  A goodly portion of those people will never return to work.  A percentage of them will never be the same, as indicated upthread.

BUT, we don't know what surprises Covid has for us coming down the pike, ala Shingles, Post-Polio Syndrome, Encephalitis Lethargica, etc.  You will not know the cost of this disease potentially for 20, 50, 100 years.

Oops, sorry, don't know why that posted twice.

Lol, I don't know about all that, but it's sweet of you to say, Techno!

I feel pretty strongly about it, especially in light of stories like this one, the story of the late Texas Roadhouse restaurant CEO:

https://www.aol.com/tinnitus-covid-19-connection-explained-011631547.html

Guess it's hard to see when you're down the 🐇hole.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210328-paris-doctors-sound-alarm-warn-of-catastrophic-overload-of-covid-19-cases

Perspective. 8 billion people on earth. 

2.8 million died from Covid. Most were comorbid and over 70. 

That's 1 in 2860

If 2860 people are in a room and every year one person died. 

Would you be concerned?  

Just remember 293 people in that room would be over 70. 

Covid is over. Its under control. There is nothing to fear anymore. Its a powderpuff. 

BBC News - Covid: France schools to close under third lockdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56597319

CNN : A dangerous coronavirus variant is wreaking havoc in parts of Europe. Experts fear US could be next.

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/PuZ5ulwTJXE/index.html

carbon20 wrote: Covid infections in the USA are 30million with 500k dead, Given the population of the USA is 3028 million...... A lot more could be infected.....alot more could die.... So it's not over won't be for years..... Take care all 😷😉

Your finger hit an extra key there Carbon. ;)

The population of the US is 328 million, but still lots of room for more infections.

Yes, and I think that, even though the US has a higher percentage of cases than the rest of the world, the situation is still the same everywhere.  Dutch Josh's Scenarios highlights the possibility that vaccinating against the original strain of Covid may enable other more contagious and virulent strains to emerge, and they may be alot more difficult to vaccinate against.  Contrary to Cobber's statistic, largely due to shutdowns of varying degrees, distancing and PPEs, we have succeeded in mitigating the spread of Covid, so the whole population has not been exposed to it.  We cannot vaccinate our way out of this totally.  We are still going to have to use distancing, PPEs, contact tracing, and occasional rolling shutdowns in our auxiliary toolkit, while hopefully succeeding in creating booster vaccines in order to guard against variants, recombinations, etc.

It would be "nice" if we could avoid a PPG-Permanent Pandemic Genocide...Going for "herd-immunity" in this Covid19 crisis was a bad choice. The poor are paying the price dying in the thousends each day...

There are ways to stop it. Covid over in 30 days is a matter of choices...A 30 day almost global lockdown most likely would bring the R0 far under 1-also do a lot to stop variants. Global vaccinations could limit disease, spread of infections...

The only reason "we" are NOT stopping Covid is greed !

By way of argument:.....

https://www.avianflutalk.com/uk3rd-of-c19-hospital-patients-readmitted_topic43841_post306164.html#306164

The Associated Press: Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million.

https://apnews.com/ccad03475cfd5c846f11189a8bfd99c7

WitchMisspelled wrote: I've been away from the forum for a while and am surprised people are still feeding into this. But then, stress needs a vent. Even before I stepped away, I stopped commenting on cobber's opinions.  Why? Because cobber has no skin in this game.  He and his are not in any danger.  He's an armchair critic.  After being up close and personal to the 1993 Trade Center bombing and subsequently 9/11, I learned a lot about armchair critics and their ease and spreading BS.  It's just that. And it's inconsequential.

Missed you WM,

+3.

Your very welcome......😉