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This is as expected.

The points of quarantines are to knock down the peaks to "flatten the curve" to keep the the medical care system from going into overload and vastly increasing the fatality rate.

When the rate drops the rules can be relaxed to allow industry and commerce to step into the breach and provide critical items and paychecks.

When the rates of infection rise again, the quarantine is reimposed to flatten the next peak.

Intermittent quarantines minimize loss of life while enabling the economy, that is to say the people, to stay afloat.

Each wave benefits from the lessons learned in the previous.

Hydroxycholoquine+azithomycin will likely save thousands in the second cycle for one example, for another a Canadian therapist figured out how to treat nine patients with a single respirator unit.

The third cycle will doubtless have their own wonder cure (Vitamin C+D Hammer?)

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[OKSooner]

Well said.

And yes, Vitamins (Pronounced VITTA-mins, a la Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange" "You mean like VITTAmins?") C and D, an age-appropriate multivitamin, (again, VITTA-min) plus zinc if one can find it these days... and protect oneself in general... we all know those particulars at this point.

[pax_et_bonum]

This is as expected.

The points of quarantines are to knock down the peaks to "flatten the curve" to keep the the medical care system from going into overload and vastly increasing the fatality rate.

When the rate drops the rules can be relaxed to allow industry and commerce to step into the breach and provide critical items and paychecks.

When the rates of infection rise again, the quarantine is reimposed to flatten the next peak.

Intermittent quarantines minimize loss of life while enabling the economy, that is to say the people, to stay afloat.

Each wave benefits from the lessons learned in the previous.

Hydroxycholoquine+azithomycin will likely save thousands in the second cycle for one example, for another a Canadian therapist figured out how to treat nine patients with a single respirator unit.

The third cycle will doubtless have their own wonder cure (Vitamin C+D Hammer?)

Worth repeating, in bold.

Great post, nully!

[GOPJ]

A lot of this was caused by people who had left Hong Kong coming back when they thought it was safe - bringing new cases with them...