Viruses 101: How Overprotecting People from COVID 19 Could Make it More Lethal

Americanthinker.com ^ | 04/14/2020 | Brandon Reines

[Bonemaker]

With heroic imagination rivalling Don Quixote’s, our hysterical health technocrats are stuck in a time capsule in the middle of World War 1 from which they battle the most terrible pathogen of all time -- the original H1N1 flu virus. How else to explain why they have adopted precisely the public health tactics -- masking, social distancing, and quarantining -- that were used in 1918?

[Bonemaker]

Dose related...like everything else. A little bit of exposure now and then allows the body to build immunity without being overwhelmed. Thats even the principle behind vaccines. Farm kids build up immunity that way to all kinds of stuff that would wipe out city slickers.

[Steve_Seattle]

That’s why I’m not completely hunkered-down. I go to the store a couple of times a week and don’t wear a mask. I don’t flaunt carelessness, but I think some exposure to things does build immunity.

[Vermont Lt]

The social distancing is about slowing the spread down so the 20% of folks who need extra care will be able to access it.

I am not sure why this goal seems to be missed on people.

Roughly same number of folks will get sick. Just over a longer time.

[TalBlack]

We’re probably avoiding the usual cold and flu bugs as well. I was wondering if we could get ganged up on by two or three later on...?

[jjotto]

Yep.

Most people can’t understand that.

[nevermorelenore]

Agree !!!

[dangerdoc]

Yes.

In a perverse way, we want all at low risk to get it to build up herd immunity while spreading out infection in those at high risk to not overburden the hospitals.

Didn’t read the article, they may be discussing selection of more deadly strains which is another discussion.

[IndispensableDestiny]

On the other hand, the Wuhan Virus could follow in the footsteps left by the first SARS outbreak. Disappear from the face of the earth on its own.

[AFB-XYZ]

I think that most people don’t so much have a problem with “social distancing”, as with the idea that it will never end. Just my $.02.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The social distancing is about slowing the spread down so the 20% of folks who need extra care will be able to access it.

I am not sure why this goal seems to be missed on people.

Roughly same number of folks will get sick. Just over a longer time.

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It originally was "flatten the curve, so the hospitals will not be overwhelmed. That made sense. However, we have had mission creep, and it is now "protect everyone from this virus, and nothing else".

The media have created a panicdemic.

[x]

People have it and are getting it already. In a place like New York City, though, social distancing and quarantine may mean the difference between getting a small dose and getting a massive one. Presumably, as the shutdowns end, people will still be social distancing and wearing masks, so as to avoid getting hit with large doses, which would have happened if we kept everything open in those cities and taken no precautions.

[Boomer]

I agree with you about the cities being highly dangerous -Wu Flu wise.

Most of America is not the cities though so why make everyone suffer rather than just those in the cities?

[Steve_Seattle]

This is often called the "novel" corona virus, presumably because it's a new strain with (initially) unknown characteristics and risks. If you look at the CDC graphs, the lines measuring new cases and deaths were almost flat until mid-March ("Beware the Ides of March!"), when they began to noticeably rise.

We had been told that the incubation time was about two weeks, and that long flat line on the graphs - two months or more after the virus presumably arrived here - made many of us think the virus might be no worse than the seasonal flu, and maybe not as bad.

Then the virus took off, and the "gotcha" war has been underway for weeks, with the Democrats and media pointing the finger at Trump. But anyone who follows conservative media knows that it was not just Trump who was originally a bit skeptical, but most people - major health experts, most media, and most politicians of both parties.

Trump's little videos and timelines at yesterday's press conference tried to set the record straight, and the media didn't like it one bit.

[Vermont Lt]

It’s been three weeks.

You make it sound like we’ve been welded in our homes for two months.

[amihow]

Dose related...like everything else
xxxxxx

Yes, and that is why I have been arguing, to no avail, that everyone should have been and should if re-open country.

If we all wear masks we reduce viral load in and viral load out and build immunity without overwhelming people with huge load of a new virus.

Such behaviors are our only vaccine at the moment.

[frog in a pot]

Most of America is not the cities though so why make everyone suffer rather than just those in the cities?

Pretty sure Trump is focusing on that point. If the authoritarian Dems want to prolong a shutdown, there will be political risks.

I too agree with x's take on congested cities presenting the highest dosages of CV19, perhaps it is a function of multiple hits in a short time frame.

The title of this thread:
"How Overprotecting People from COVID 19 Could Make it More Lethal."
Pelosi's take:
"We have to let it kill you in order to avoid making it more lethal."

She is a modern day Casey Stengel, except she without a sense of humor and a lousy manager.

[Bonemaker]

Same here. Got to get out a little...groceries, liquor etc. Nothing unnecessary and no mask.

[AFB-XYZ]

It feels like it.

[arthurus]

But fewer will develop that immunity and when it comes around again more people will get it.

[Vermont Lt]

But the thought is the medical services will have a vaccine or better treatment.

That’s the thought.