This is not a “Zombie” disease where everyone who is touched, dies. South Korea did statistical sampling with antibody testing three months ago and proved a death rate of 0.6% from the infected population.
We were told to “flatted the curve,” which means just about everyone will get it, but more slowly, allowing hospitals to treat within what they can handle. This was never, “Stop Until No One Gets It.”
Let people die a normal death. Less than 0.6% will do so, anyway. People are dying and are being put into bankruptcy because of fear this is a “Zombie-level” extinction event.
I want the virus to spread and so does the government. That’s the whole reason for “flattening the curve.”
But Americans have been fed so many zombie movies by Hollywood in recent years that it is no surprise people are thinking this way. More Americans know how to kill zombies than know how to do basic statistical analysis.
So South Korea found that the death rate from all coronaviruses combined is only 0.6%? Fine, but what is their death rate from Covid-19?
Oh, it was 2.383%. I get that from the actual case data.
267 deaths / 11,206 cases x 100 = 2.383%.
The problem with antibodies is that they can't tell the difference between related viruses. So an antibody study is useless for determining who has had Covid-19.
We were told to “flatted the curve,” which means just about everyone will get it, but more slowly, allowing hospitals to treat within what they can handle. This was never, “Stop Until No One Gets It.”
Flattening the growth curve actually does mean getting rid of the disease. That is and remains the focus of the pandemic response, regardless of interim goals along the way. When no more people catch the disease, the curve becomes completely flat.
We have eliminated diseases before, and we can eliminate this one.