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"Don’t they realize that if the cases are super high but the deaths are low that we are in the midst of something that is not particularly dangerous? "

Arizona cases versus deaths from a couple of days ago:

If cases were not exploding, our death rate would be near zero by now. The death rate is declining, but slowly, because enough new cases WILL increase deaths.

But that is unavoidable! Most new cases in Arizona involve people under 45. They DO die, sometimes, but rarely. I understand flattening the curve to keep peaks from overloading hospitals, but I don't understand folks PRETENDING we can prevent deaths without first HAVING a lot of infections.

Could the virus kill a million people over the next couple of years? Maybe. Can we prevent it? Not without a vaccine. Which we may never get. And BTW, the US population increases by 2 million a year. At the risk of sounding harsh, a million dead this year means our population growth in 2020 would still be an additional 1 million people.

In the absence of any likely means of stopping the virus in the next couple of years, all we can do is get enough younger people to catch it and recover so that the virus finds it harder to spread. Which I believe is already happening.

The virus seems to NEED people in pretty close contact for sustained periods of time INDOORS. Nursing homes. Bars. Prisons. Sports arenas. Subways. It really isn't that easy to catch. A friend was recently found to be positive from months ago. Her husband never caught it and he is in his 70s. It isn't THAT easy to catch!

The question isn't if a significant number of us will die. That has already occurred, and more will die. We can spread those deaths out over a longer period of time but we ALSO NEED the economy running to provide the $$$ and resources to fight the virus at all.

For some people in some situations, masks might make sense. They are a waste of time where and how I live. Social distancing? I've done it for 50+ years! What I bitterly resent is the constant drumbeat of fear pushed by the media. Oddly enough, I know of only 2 people over 60 who are seriously concerned. Most of my friends are over 60 and we're just not inclined to run in circles screaming because the media tells us to. We know we are all going to die sometime. Many of us have faced death already.

The virus IS a reason for concern and some people - and some activities - need to change. But we don't need government weenies and their media allies trying to panic everyone.

Oddly enough, I know of only 2 people over 60 who are seriously concerned. Most of my friends are over 60 and we're just not inclined to run in circles screaming because the media tells us to. We know we are all going to die sometime. Many of us have faced death already.

I know of someone who came down with Covid-19 at an assisted living center. Her husband had passed away a few years before. Medical people wanted to put her on a ventilator. She said screw that and said her last goodbyes to family and friends via zoom. She died a few days later..

Tested positive myself. In my 30s, was tested positive back in March along with my wife and three children. While this is anecdotal and possibly exceptional that none of us got serious sickness, and while I did mostly isolate for a while along with the rest of us, we eventually got over the fear and are mostly just not telling people about it. This is months later okay, I am willing to take the risks at this point and maintain decent hygiene, and I just don’t tell anyone about the status because this isn’t HIV, and hoenstly I don’t cough or spit on people because it’s just rude.