Posted on 03/18/2020 2:22:53 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Netherlands will aim to develop immunity to coronavirus among its population by allowing large numbers to contract the illness at a controlled pace, prime minister Mark Rutte announced in a national address on Monday.
“The reality is that in the near future a large part of the Dutch population will be infected with the virus,” Mr Rutte said. “We can slow down the spread of the virus while building controlled group immunity.”
“It can take months or even longer to build group immunity, and during that time we need to shield people at greater risk as much as possible.”
The idea of developing group immunity to coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, is controversial. It has been supported by Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell and Britain’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance. But the World Health Organisation (WHO) has questioned its basis in evidence.
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They should just import a bunch of immigrants from Wuhan.
The year of my surgical internship I took care of a 15 bed ICU for a month by myself. Then, the day I was supposed to be paroled my replacement broke her ankle so the Chairman asked me to do another month. “The Chairman owes you”... was quite a motivator. Then as the year closed there were three months left over and they asked me to do it again for 3 months because of “all the interns you’re the best”. So I managed a 15 bed ICU in an 800 bed hospital for 5 months of my surgical internship. We did 4 hearts a day Monday through Friday. So I had seen a whole lot of real sick people. The afternoon I saw a dozen people with malaria it still impressed the hell out of me. Sounds to me like this disease , in acute respiratory failure, is a lot like malaria. The first guy to recognize it did so after just FOUR patients.
The Mullah Method?
What if there is no immunity given the rapid mutation and that this is an unnatural laboratory-created pathogen.
The bottleneck is the vents. And the doctors to manage them (and the RT guys to maintain, etc.). How many blue people per hour? IIRC the country has a bit over 100,000, “recovered” may need them for 5 days. Obviously “dead” don’t need the full 5 days. If we get over 100,000 who need those vents over the next week or so there won’t be enough. Distributing them to match the demand alone will be tough.
Don’t even think about going there. But it’s unlikely because if you mounted NO response NOBODY would recover.
But your question does reveal a common misunderstanding about medicine in general. People think “that antibiotic saved my life”. No, it didn’t. The medicine just helped enough to tip “the war” in your favor. Anything a doctor does is just helping your body and frequently that help may only be a small percentage.
What if “ recovery” consists of reducing the viral load to undetectible levels
But it lurks waiting for another infection or opportunity to start multiplyimg again
Like HIV
Which is part of this created virus
You never are cured, you spend a lifetime on drugs to control
Do some people ( super spreaders) remain infectious forever?
Do children?
These are the nightmare scenarios
That’s the problem with “new”. Remember it took 40 years to realize flu caused Parkinson’s.
Details please?
And that chickenpox virus never really goes away and can reactivate as ‘ shingles”
Or even a few; the 2nd wave of 1918 Spanish Flu was worse than the initial one.
I agree.
More like: our wealthy owner class would rather a number of you die needlessly than lose income from shutting down business.
Maybe something like this
Not for the faint hearted
Nothingburgers please just skip this post
Summary of below studies
https://imgur.com/gallery/HAHU4vg
Imperial College study 1
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-researchers-model-likely-impact/
Imperial college Study 2
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news—wuhan-coronavirus/
All in all, the Dutch approach of “ herd immunity” ( now rejected by the US and the UK) does model euthanasia because it accepts the loss of millions of lives until a vaccine is available in 2021 or 2022
Thanks, will look later.
Thanks, no time to read right now, though. :-(
Don’t bother. Bottom line: it took 40 years to realize that particular complication of the Spanish Flu.
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