NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[gandalf50]

GoodGuy!

I was not trying to project any point of view with regard to
what should have been done to deal with Covid. Hindsight is just that.......hindsight.

If one studies the "Great Influenza" of 1918 (and I have), some
frightening realities become apparent. In 1918 the world's population
was 1.8 billion. International non-military air travel was basically
non-existent. Even so, over the course of the 4 years that the virus
and it's mutations were present it is estimated that as many as 150 million people DIED worldwide. The initial wave of the virus only struck young people! The second wave was the most destructive and effected all demographics.

Today we have 8 billion people worldwide and the death rate has been less than 1%. Millions of people travel internationally ever day.

Maybe (this is my point), we should collectively treat this as a message and be guided accordingly. Virus's will spread regardless of our attempts to prevent it.....this is what virus's do.....the question is how do we deal with this natural phenomenon?

The next virus might be ten times more deadly.....or we might have fairly mild virus's for twenty years.

Going forward, should we shut down our global economy every flu season and wait to see if "this years" flu is deadly? Should people stop living, stay in their homes, order all their needs on the internet, wait for their government check..........?

Maybe (without hysteria) we should begin to face Covid for what it is.....a naturally occurring event that is likely to occur again.

We have chosen to trust the health care industry to take care of us.

Why were they SO ill prepared to handle something as historically common and predictable as a virus pandemic?