I believe the model that predicted millions and millions of dead was proven wrong. If I’m not mistaken, it was revised significantly downward within days of release. In fact, the prediction for the very next day was wrong. A Cambridge degree isn’t worth as much as it used to be it seems, even if the price goes up 6% a year in a sub-2% world.
As a general rule of thumb, when your leaders are stoking fear, they are misleading you. Something to consider.
Where is Roosevelt when you need him?
Something else to consider. The original rationale, offered in the face of bodies gonna be piled in the streets, was to social distance/lockdown so that we could BEND THE CURVE. Why? So that our hospitals weren’t overwhelmed.
Mission accomplished.
The two navy hospital ships are empty. The tents set up in Central Park are empty. McCormick Place in Chicago is empty. Hospitals all around the country have a lot of excess capacity.
Why aren’t we loosening up? Are we gonna to commit economic and social suicide while we wait for a vaccine against a virus that may be impossible to create? Where’s the AIDS vaccine? How about the common cold vaccine? Cancer vaccines? Man, these things can take time, and in the end might not even work!
I think I just convinced the shorts it’s time to loosen up!
I’m not saying there won’t be a successful vaccine, just that, given all the factors that need to be taken into account, it may not make sense to wait a year or two in our hidey holes, especially since we achieved our initial goal.
