Safely Reopening Our American Economy

Self ^ | 4/13/2020 | Self

[catnipman]

Herd immunity is necessary for the C-19 contagion to burn itself out, but that can't happen by having lockdowns of the public because lockdowns actually PREVENT herd immunity from occurring, and it doesn't matter if a lockdown lasts a month or lasts six months because regardless of the length of the lockdown, any economic reopening will produce an unavoidable new wave of C-19 cases. Public policy makers know all of the above, and their claim has always been that a lockdown was *ONLY* to avoid the unknown possibility of the medical system being overwhelmed by too many severe cases all at once, and not that a lockdown would minimize the overall number of deaths and illnesses but would instead simply spread them out over time.

Thus, President Trump's dilemma ("the hardest decision I'll ever have to make in my life") is how to prepare the public for this inevitable new wave of illness and death WHEN our economy MUST inevitably reopen.

However, if there's a cheap, safe, effective and universally available cure in the early stages of C-19 infection as is now known to be the case with the HCQ/antibiotic/zinc treatment, then there is indeed a whole new ballgame. It therefore becomes less important as to how many will become ill WHEN the reopening occurs, because very few will succumb due to an available treatment. Our country can therefore safely and quickly build herd immunity as our economy inevitably reopens, and C-19 will burn itself out as it can no longer be spread once a certain threshold of immunity in the population is reached.

So, I believe that what should drive the “reopening” date is having enough HCQ/antibiotic/zinc supplies across the nation to treat the hundreds of thousands of new, symptomatic cases AS SOON AS THEY OCCUR when the nation reopens for business, because then large numbers of people becoming ill from this disease won’t be as critical IF they can be effectively treated in the EARLY STAGES of the illness.

However, if we do NOT have those curative medications in place in sufficient quantities across our nation, then all hell will break loose from the national Democrats and their fake stream enemedia propaganda organs attacking President Trump should large numbers of people succumb as a result of the inevitable reopening.

Thus, from a political perspective, and more importantly from the perspective of saving lives, it is VITAL that stockpiles of these critical medications are distributed in sufficient quantities throughout our national healthcare system to meet the challenges of the inevitable new wave of illnesses that is going to occur when our economy is reopened.

The Democrats and fake stream enemedia know all of the above of course, which is why they've been desperately trying to discredit a safe, effective and inexpensive treatment and are desperately trying to put President Trump into a lose-lose situation by reopening our economy and having additional scores of people die so that they can then claim that it's President Trump's fault.

However, a widely available cure will allow our economy to be safely reopened with few additional deaths, a situation that is total anathema to the national Democrats and their fake stream enemedia toadies.

Fortunately, the HCQ/antibiotic/zinc treatment has practically become the standard of treatment in ERs and ICUs around the nation. Thus, the main thing President Trump needs to do before reopening our economy is to make sure that sufficient supplies of the medications necessary to treat C-19 are widely available beforehand.

[catnipman]

“But you will find you are in the minority here at good old FR. Many here believe that the shutdown was a big waste of time”

actually, i didn’t think i endorsed the shutdown one way or the other, but just pointed out what so-called public policy makers claimed ... probably lots of other things i wrote will be disagreed with, though ... and if folks here have good counter arguments that’s fine ... of course, most now just shoot off their mouths here with one liners these days ...

[catnipman]

“My concern is if one catches the virus and are treated early with the Z-paks, does your body fully develop the antibodies that will guarantee you not catching it again.”

interesting question ... i’ve never seen it before ... ALL antivirals basically work only when taken very early in the infection such as famciclovir for shingles ... never heard a doc say immunity for shingles wouldn’t develop in such a case, though ...

also, viral infections take a while to incubate (usually several days) before symptoms first appear, so the body has a pretty high viral load at that point as well as having been exposed to the virus for quite some time. also, antivirals don’t actually kill viruses, but prevent them from replicating so the body isn’t overwhelmed with a greater numbers of viruses than it can kill, thus freezing the number of viruses and giving the body a chance to kill them, so viruses still remain in the body for some number od days after taking the antiviral as well ...