Its a strange thing, watching America die

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[–]meatball4u 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree the IFR is not so scary, but the post-COVID syndrome that is affecting about 1 out of every 5 people is worrying. These people are still having symptoms many months after their acute infection, and are even having trouble with cognitive function that keeps them from working. Same happened with the first SARS outbreak. There could be a significant number of disabled people as a result. If you've never heard of Myalgic Encephalomylitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it can occur after infections and wreck people for decades. There will probably be a big increase in this condition after the surveys are done. We don't need to shut the country down, but if there was better testing and contact tracing there would be a lot less risk. But Trump doesn't like testing because it makes the numbers look worse for him. Very vain. Could still keep the economy going while testing and preventing

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting. But I think the bigger question which our "leaders" seem suspiciously incurious about is the source of the virus. If this was indeed a bioweapon then all these long term effects could actually be the objective of any gain-of-function sequence changes, not actually killing people. As they say in combat you're better off disabling the enemy than killing them because disabled people cost more.