permafrost wrote:
The 1918-1920 flu pandemic came in three major waves. After the first wave in the US, the virus subsided, and Americans were restless to have businesses reopened and for social life to resume. There was a growing movement to stop wearing masks, which had become ubiquitous - so much so that The Anti-Mask League of 1919 was formed. These were protests from those who thought the public health ordinance violated their liberty.
The virus came back with a vengeance in the fall and was much deadlier than the first wave, eventually killing more than 675,000 Americans and killing around 100 million of the 500 million it infected worldwide before it was over. This was before mass vaccination, before the electron microscope; this is the tragedy of herd immunity and stubborn ignorance.
Viruses aren't political; they don't care about your theories or speculations or projections. They're unthinking parasites only wanting to replicate and use your body as a host. Wear a mask.
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What most miss about this event:
1. Medical doctor says shut it down, and Trump eventually agreed.
Solution based in 14 symptom cycle and math.
1. If we shut down for 2 weeks to allow infected to surface, and get treated. Then open up completely for 2 weeks, so any remaining infected would show symptoms. Get treated.
Then repeat the cycle for 2 more times, we would have wiped out the virus. Deaths would be high, but over.
For those that say we had most cases and use as a measure of how poorly we reacted, hogwash.
We tested the most per capita and we reported all deaths. China did neither. Russia did neither. Oh and by the way, our spies say Russia used the 2 closed - 2 open technique to reduce spread of virus over a longer period of time. They felt fear was a bigger danger.
WHO now says everyone should have stayed open for basically the same reasons.
2. Our choice from the doctor's was to prevent loss of hospital space and buy time to produce needed respirators and quality testing. Also to mobilize research for treatment and vaccines to prevent.
In the end, both are needed.
Only the democrats created fear and subverted any efforts to reduce death because of their loss of political power over their intelligent base. The true democrats that remain, still think like JFK- conservatively and gov't is not here to take care of you.
Every democrat or libertarian so they say, did nothing but Monday morning quarterbacking. Useless for what already happened, unless it is used to correct the course for the immediate future to kill the virus. That is what Pence's task force did. They (Pence) learned and created solutions for the democrats to bitch about.