The lock-downs were counterproductive & now we need an abrupt opening of the economy to build herd immunity. Sweden handled COVID-19 the best.

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[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

As long as the hospitals are not overwhelmed, nothing should be shut down, imo.

The whole "flattening the curve" thing was to lower death rates by preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed. Hospitals are not overwhelmed, and in fact most are half-empty right now. Furthermore the growth rate of the disease plateaued many weeks ago.

Yes the growth will accelerate from opening things up, but that's to be expected. As long as hospitals aren't overwhelmed, lockdowns for the healthy do basically nothing, as 70% will get it anyway, lockdown or not. It's just the rate that changes, so locking down only draws this thing out.

And if someone is high-risk they need to take care of themselves to safeguard against that, just like with previous flu seasons. We cannot grind the world to a halt over something that has a 0.3% mortality rate, it's just nonsensical. Back when we thought it was a 3-4% mortality rate, that behavior made sense. But now that 44 studies have shown a median mortality rate of 0.3%, it's clear this is just a bad flu in terms of how we should react to it. It's not the black death like we thought in the beginning.

[–]mr-gem-524[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And if someone is high-risk they need to take care of themselves to safeguard against that, just like with previous flu seasons.

We should have let evolution run it's course and weed off some weak people anyway - if they wanted to survive they should have been responsible. Sad reality, but that's just the nature of the beast. I am not insensitive towards older people either as this is all coming from someone who found his own 85-year-old grandmother dead from a heart attack on the floor (I came to her house to do my regular daily/bi-daily visit).

Most of our leaders responses to COVID-19 have the fallacy of good intentions while not thinking of the results that lie ahead. Good intentions might be "we need to keep people safe" but the reality is confining everyone to their homes or shutting down places left & right has many unintended consequences like people loosing their businesses, unimaginably high unemployment, likely increase in suicides, people not having their immune system exercised/exposed, and to people like me working/school from home (online college w/ a full coarse load was a bitch, WAY too distracting at home and other reasons)

Sorry there was a 2-day delay, I was in the middle of writing this and I left the tab where I typed this open.