Flubros! New science fire Day 13

www.freerepublic.com ^ | 2 April 2020 | impimp

[impimp]

It’s just the flu, bro.

Today I am presenting new science that I developed that will improve the situation we are in with this Coronavirus. My qualifications to speak on epidemiological matters are listed below: 1, Flubros member for 13 days 2. I am smart and creative and read the internet

Herd immunity holds that when approximately 60% of a population gets a virus then the other 40% are way less likely to get it because there are fewer potential transmitters of the disease around.

Therefore, I introduce the new science concept of encouraging healthiness-differentiated social distancing - or HSD.

The public policy this new science points to is clear - only the sick, unhealthy, immune-compromised and old should be encouraged to social distance until The end of April. Everyone else (the young and healthy) should do more socializing and touching than they would normally do.

What is the effect of this? The largely asymptomatic healthy people get removed as potential vectors for the disease during the month of April. They would get exposed and go through a period of being communicable, but they would be socially distant from the vulnerable. Then, after the period of being contagious is over, they begin to socialize with the vulnerable.

This also “flattens the curve” as the healthy won’t be going to the doctor. This keeps the economy going.

The most important benefit is that it prevents the likelihood of a second outbreak like China is having. Undifferentiated social distancing (opposite of what I want) keeps the vulnerable continually at risk for infection. This is what China is doing and this is what we are doing.

[Jack Black]

Mmeanwhile in Ecuador:

"Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos said that Guayaquil and Quito detected their first cases of the coronavirus around the same time, but while the population of Quito was generally compliant with the quarantine and other social-distancing measures “a group of people [in Guayaquil] didn’t listen and we had an explosion in the viral load,” he said. “Now we have 10 times fewer cases in Quito than in Guayaquil.”

Flubro theory is being put to the test in Ecuador. It's not working out so great:

“The funeral homes have collapsed and the cemeteries have collapsed,” he said. “Now the government, for the first time that I can remember, has taken on the job of picking up bodies.”

Wated said he estimated there were still about 100 corpses in Guayaquil that needed collecting, but the administration’s goal is to clear bodies out within 24 hours.

[bagster]

Flubro theory is being put to the test in Ecuador. It's not working out so great:

Is there physical pain involved being wrong about everything, soya?

[deport]

Thanks. I wondered what post #45 contained to get it removed.