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[–]wuzizname 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doesn't matter, we're at the point where people are saying it has to hit 0 cases per day, if one person dies it's one person too many!

Millions have died from aids but California now says it's OK to have unprotected sex with aids and not tell your partner that you have aids, but if you want to have thanksgiving with your family you're a monster.

Listen to the science! Scientists change their opinion almost daily, which is to be expected because that's what scientists are supposed to do. There is no "settled science" on covid because it's a new virus - so we have 4 - 5 different levels of scientists (global, federal, state, county, municipal) all saying different things on a weekly basis - not to mention articles like this by cynics or other opinions by radicals or experimental scientists. We can't live a life dictated by scientists working through something they don't yet understand.

If anything, lockdowns have not worked and if we try them again they will not work if we attempt them again. And this silly notion of "we have to keep it up until there are zero new cases" is dangerous and absurd - we haven't eliminated influenza, meningitis or even fucking head lice infections despite massive efforts to do so, polio took decades to eradicate, we can't keep hiding in our basements.

Treat it like we treated SARS or any other outbreak - quarantine the sick, isolate the most vulnerable, let the healthy go about their lives.